Revere Ave
38 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Revere Ave, between 1910 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about environmental review, railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Environmental review3Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s6Official sidewalk width changed at Silver and Revere Avenues · 2015
- 1960s3Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
- 1950s2Shafter Avenue and part of Rankin Street closed for good · 1953
- 1940s6City takes over parts of Diamond, Gaven and Cambridge Streets · 1948
- 1920s6Flinn & Treacy paid $1,360.14 for work on Railroad Avenue · 1925
- 1910s15Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue · 1914
The most notable decisions
Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 21 December 1914 ↗Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph
Resolution · 14 October 1969 ↗Official sidewalk width changed at Silver and Revere Avenues
Ordinance · 3 November 2015 ↗Sidewalk widths to be changed on Silver and Revere Avenues
Ordinance · 3 November 2015 ↗Sidewalk widths at Silver and Revere Avenues to be changed
Ordinance · 7 July 2015 ↗City takes over parts of Diamond, Gaven and Cambridge Streets
Ordinance · 9 February 1948 ↗City to take over parts of Diamond, Gaven and Cambridge Streets
Ordinance · 26 January 1948 ↗City Engineer to study extending the Municipal Railway to Hawes Street
Resolution · 31 December 1917 ↗Sidewalk widths set on Railroad Avenue between Burke and Revere avenues
Ordinance · 10 February 1910 ↗Flinn & Treacy paid $1,360.14 for work on Railroad Avenue
Resolution · 13 July 1925 ↗
Where this comes from
Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city