[Adopted 8-15-2012 by Ord. No. Z-192]
A.
Any individual or organization may apply to the City to rename a
City street, City streets may only be renamed after a prominent person.
Such prominent person must be:
B.
Only one street renaming application shall be processed at a time,
and only one street name change shall be implemented per year for
a major traffic or district collector street. Additional applications
shall be placed on a waiting list and processed in order of submission
when these criteria can be met.
A.
The name of the street proposed for renaming shall not be changed
if the existing name is of historic significance or the street is
significant in its own right.
B.
The street proposed for renaming must start and terminate entirely
within City boundaries.
C.
The name of any street shall be the same for its entire length. Renaming
only portions of a street shall not be permitted.
The applicant must conform to the following procedure in applying
to rename a City street:
A.
The applicant shall submit evidence to the City Director of Human Services that the street renaming proposal is in compliance with § 168-90A(2) and (3) and § 168-902B and C. If the Director determines the submittal does not comply with these sections, the applicant will be so advised, and the City shall take no further action. If the submittal is in compliance with the above-referenced sections, the Director shall issue the application materials described in Subsection B.
C.
The applicant shall, after filing a completed application form and
paying any applicable fees:
(1)
Obtain a minimum of 1,000 signatures in support of the proposal
from legal residents of the City at large or signatures of at least
75% of the abutting property owners along the street proposed for
renaming on the petition forms supplied by the Director of Human Services.
(2)
Make a good-faith effort to obtain a letter of concurrence to
the proposed street renaming from the honoree's surviving spouse,
children, or parents, in that order. The Director of Human Services
shall accept registered mail receipts and copies of all letters as
evidence of compliance with this provision.
(3)
Provide to the Director of Human Services supporting information, including a complete biography of the proposed honoree with references of substantiation; honors received; contributions to the national and/or local community; etc., which will be reviewed by an historian panel appointed pursuant to § 168-904A. This submission shall contain sufficient information to allow the historian panel to accurately assess the appropriateness of renaming a street after the proposed honoree.
D.
The applicant shall have 180 calendar days to complete and submit the information required by Subsection C to the Director of Human Services' office. If the completed application has not been submitted to the Director within 180 calendar days after the application has been received by the applicant, the application shall be invalid. No time extension shall be granted. At the time of submission, the Director shall check the applicant's application and accept it only if it is complete and appears to comply with the requirements of § 168-901 through 168-903.
(1)
If the City Director of Human Services accepts the submission,
the applicant shall make an escrow payment to cover the full cost
of printing and mailing of postcards and public notices as determined
by the City Chief Financial Officer. After the application has been
processed, the Chief Financial Officer shall refund any unused portion
of the escrow funds to the applicant.
Upon receipt of the applicant's packet, the City shall process
the application as follows:
A.
The City Director of Human Services shall, within 14 calendar days
after submission of the completed application, refer the street renaming
application to a panel of three historians or persons with appropriate
expertise appointed by the Director and Mayor for review and determination
as to appropriateness of the proposed name and its compliance with
criteria for selecting a new street name and determination as to historic
significance of the street.
B.
The City Director of Human Services shall notify all neighborhood
and business associations recognized by the City which encompass or
represent owners of property or businesses located on property abutting
the street proposed for renaming of the proposed renaming and request
that they submit in writing to the Director and Mayor their support
or opposition to the proposed name change within 45 days.
C.
The historian panel shall have 45 calendar days from the date of
receipt to review the application and advise the City Planning Board
as to its recommendations. If the panel does not provide a recommendation
within the forty-five-day period, the Planning Board shall review
the application with no recommendation unless the Planning Board grants
a time extension to the historian panel, which shall not exceed 14
calendar days.
D.
Concurrent with the historian panel review under Subsection C of this section, the Chief Financial Officer shall conduct a postcard mailing survey of each legal owner and each legal address abutting the street in question, notifying them that there will be public hearings by the Planning Board and City Council regarding the proposed street renaming and requesting the occupant's and owner's input within 30 calendar days as to the proposed name change. The Chief Financial Officer shall also receive and tabulate all responses to the postcard survey and forward the results to the City Planning Board.
E.
The City Director of Human Services shall prepare and submit to the
Planning Board a budget impact statement as to the direct cost of
production and installation of new street name signs and related City
costs.
F.
The City Planning Board shall conduct a public hearing on the matter
and make a recommendation to the City Council as to the best interest
of the City.
G.
The City Clerk shall schedule a public hearing before City Council
on the matter. Notice of the hearing shall be published in a newspaper
of general circulation not less than once within the week prior to
the week within which the hearing is to be held.
H.
A public hearing shall be held before City Council on the proposed
street name change.
I.
The Council may approve or deny application for a street name change
upon determination of the best interests of the City. If Council denies
the application, it is filed with no further consideration, and the
subject name and street shall not be considered again under this policy
for a period of at least two years. If Council approves the application,
certified copies of the enabling ordinance shall be filed with the
County Division of Planning and County Engineer.
The Council may rename a street in order to correct errors in street names or to eliminate confusion. Such action may be taken if it is determined that insignificant impact will result and it is desirable for the convenience of the general public. Renaming of a street by the City under provisions of this section shall not be undertaken to rename a street after a person as provided for in other sections of this article. Therefore, City-initiated actions to rename a street under provisions of this section shall be exempt from compliance with § 168-901 through 168-903 and § 168-904A through D. Section 168-904E through I shall continue to be applicable.
A.
After Council approval of the name change, the Signal and Traffic
Division shall install the new name signs adjacent to the existing
street name signs. Both signs shall be in place for a period of five
years, unless a petition is submitted to City Council from a majority
of abutting property occupants requesting that the dual signage period
be shortened. Both street name signs shall be maintained for the five-year
period at the same level of maintenance approved for street name sign
maintenance Citywide, after which time the old name shall be removed.
B.
The City Clerk shall also notify the following organizations and
individuals of the street name change through public notice, interoffice
correspondence, or other appropriate means within 30 days after approval
of the enabling ordinance:
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