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Board committee backs renaming Mission Street in Excelsior for Elsie "LC" Tonelli
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously Oct. 16 to send a resolution to the full Board recommending a commemorative street name honoring Elsie “LC” Tonelli, a longtime Excelsior merchant who ran Central Drugstore for 73 years; family and community members urged the change during public comment.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted Oct. 16 to send to the full Board a resolution to add the commemorative name “LC Tonelli Street” to Mission Street between Santa Rosa and Excelsior avenues, honoring Elsie Tonelli’s decades of service to the Excelsior neighborhood.
Supervisor Asha Safai (District 11), who sponsored the resolution, described Tonelli as “a pioneering businesswoman who owned and…
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