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Comments (18)
For only 35 bucks I would help facilitate the name change for these two... SE Liebe because it is almost always mispronounced anyway, and NE Failing (as grand as it is)because the name speaks for itself.
Posted by Gibby | August 4, 2008 8:59 AM
I second the nomination of NE Failing.
Posted by drivin' fool | August 4, 2008 9:09 AM
I nominate NE 41st between Killingsworth and Fremont for the name change, but it's probably too short to qualify as a boulevard.
Posted by Amy | August 4, 2008 9:44 AM
Short version:
City will pay a consultant $35,000 from September through December to guide the BS process to keep opposition to a minimum.
Posted by Howard | August 4, 2008 10:35 AM
I nominate my street, which is a rutted, narrow gravel road, approximately 600 feet of which is in the city.
After all, I changed my monicker from rickyragg to cc to honor Chavez.
My generosity knows no bounds.
Peace.
Posted by cc | August 4, 2008 10:51 AM
The person or group must collect at least 2,500 signatures on a petition supporting the plan, 75 percent of them from people who live along the street to be renamed...
So that means that the street has to have at least 1,875 people living along it, that support the name change? I think that alone would really limit what streets qualify to have their name changed.
Posted by Mike | August 4, 2008 11:11 AM
This is such an important problem. I think Tommy would devote all of the remaining time he has in office addressing this pressing isssue and nothing else.
Posted by David E Gilmore | August 4, 2008 11:24 AM
CC:
If I were the consultant, I would certainly recommend your street because of your altruism. I would also suggest putting a bike box there so it could get paved for you.
Posted by John Benton | August 4, 2008 11:40 AM
9243 N Rivergate Blvd Portland, OR 97203
Posted by meg | August 4, 2008 11:44 AM
I would also suggest putting a bike box there so it could get paved for you.
Thanks (I think). It does speak to city priorities, donut?
9243 N Rivergate Blvd Portland, OR 97203
What?
Posted by cc | August 4, 2008 12:40 PM
That is the Del Monte plant raided by immigration officials, I believe.
Posted by Jack Bog | August 4, 2008 2:33 PM
I'd like to see the streets that connect to the stations on the MAX Red Line renamed Lafite, Latour, Margaux, and Haut-Brion. If the City will fund it, I am prepared to assemble qualified focus groups and do the research to show why these names deserve recognition.
Posted by Isaac Laquedem | August 4, 2008 2:51 PM
Wait, I live on the west side. And last time I checked my bank account was somewhere between Winco and 'look for dropped Chalupa coupons outside a Blazer game'
Posted by Sebastian | August 4, 2008 3:22 PM
Killingsworth and Failing are out, in that they are named for historical people in Portland.
Division is in; it's named for it's having divided land claims.
Sandy is in; it's named for a river with lots of moving sediments....and it has little of it, either.
As for Liebe...I'm not sure, liebechen.
Posted by godfry | August 4, 2008 7:34 PM
Oh...are you sure the term is "facilitate", and not some other 'f' word that ends with '-ate'?
Posted by godfry | August 4, 2008 7:42 PM
There seems to be some major obstacles in getting a street named after ol Cesar. I'm not sure it will ever happen, even after another 35K is spent. Rather than changing the name of the historical Failing St altogether, we could simply change the name slightly, to Failing Chavez.
Posted by Gibby | August 4, 2008 9:00 PM
There should be some means for the public to tell the city concil to just shut up.
Perhaps a CoP online poll where if enough taxpayer/voters say shut up they do.
Posted by Ben | August 4, 2008 9:12 PM
What an astoundingly stupid waste of money.
Why this three month period and not another? Why now and not later? Why 35k to follow procedures that are clearly laid out in city code?
The Dept. of Transportation is just a pit of patronage and wasteful spending, isn't it?
Posted by john | August 5, 2008 9:53 AM