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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.

Open Revere Ave on the map, street by street

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.

  1. 2010s6
    Official sidewalk width changed at Silver and Revere Avenues · 2015
  2. 1960s3
    Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
  3. 1950s2
    Shafter Avenue and part of Rankin Street closed for good · 1953
  4. 1940s6
    City takes over parts of Diamond, Gaven and Cambridge Streets · 1948
  5. 1920s6
    Flinn & Treacy paid $1,360.14 for work on Railroad Avenue · 1925
  6. 1910s15
    Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue · 1914

The most notable decisions

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