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DataSF | Data Standards Handbook
  • Introduction
  • Data Structure and Formats
    • Data Structure and Formats
      • Column Headers & Order
      • Date and Time
      • Text
      • Numeric
      • Location (coordinates)
      • Location (addresses)
  • Standard Reference Data
    • Reference Data Overview
    • Reference: General Admin
      • Department Names and Codes
    • Reference: Demographics
      • Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity
      • Race and Ethnicity
        • City and County of San Francisco
          • San Francisco Recommended Standard
            • Appendices
          • Department of Public Health’s Ethnicity Guidelines
        • State of California
        • Federal Government
    • Reference: Basemap
      • Overview
      • Parcels
      • Building Footprints
      • Address Numbers
      • Street Names
      • Street Suffix Abbreviations
      • Street Centerlines and Nodes
    • Reference: Boundaries
      • Census
      • Neighborhoods
      • Supervisor Districts
      • Zoning Use Districts
  • Appendix
    • Reserved Column Names
    • Reference Data Index
    • Contributing
    • Acknowledgements
    • License
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  2. Reference: Basemap

Street Names

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Definition

  • The official name assigned to a segment of street or right-of-way that is legislated through the subdivision process and/or Board of Supervisors

    • Street names are generally established when streets are created as a result of the development / subdivision of land codified in the City's subdivision codes

    • Renaming streets can be initiated by members of the public or the Board of Supervisors according to the process documented by Public Works

Note: The above only applies to city-owned public streets

Illustration

  • Above is the street sign for Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley). On the street sign, both names are present for five years following a name change.

Authority

  • New street names assigned during the development / subdivision of land

    • Recordation of final parcel maps including new streets happens with the Office of the Assessor-Recorder

    • Before recordation, subdivision maps are approved by the County Surveyor, the Public Works Director and the Board of Supervisors

    • Part of the process defined in the City Subdivision Codes

  • Renaming of streets requires:

    • Petition with signatures submitted to Public Works for review with a submittal fee

    • The resolution referred to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors

    • A Public Hearing at the Land Use and Economic Development Committee

    • Board of Supervisors approval

    • Mayor's signature

Use

  • For official base maps to label the streets properly

  • As a component part of a full address (see address formatting guidance)

  • To validate against user submitted address data (e.g. in a form online)

Accepted values

  • Official street names are maintained in the City's Official Basemap updated by Public Works staff

  • The full list of valid City street names is available in the street names dataset

Reference Datasets

Dataset

Description and Constraints

Reference Columns

Contains a list of officially valid street names contained in the City's Basemap

fullstreetname composed of streetname & streettype & postdirection

A geographic reference of the all basemap streets including a number of street components like the valid name

streetname composed of street & st_type

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Street Names
San Francisco Basemap Street Centerlines
The street sign for Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley). On the street sign, both names are present for five years following a name change.