tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post1013686552532814375..comments2024-03-27T14:28:47.542-05:00Comments on Wha' Happen?: Proposal for a Method to Change Street Names in Houston Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-61584589375282436652009-10-24T17:28:43.377-05:002009-10-24T17:28:43.377-05:00Did you check this link before writing the comment...Did you check this link before writing the comment?<br /><br />http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopmentRegs/street_name.htm<br /><br />Seems that there is a way to do it and components of your ideas are in the existing method in one form or another. I do like that you put the burden of paying for the signs on the proposing party though it does squelch individual initiative to some extent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-4157491179813753592009-07-21T23:40:12.434-05:002009-07-21T23:40:12.434-05:00Thanks for the history lesson, but I was being rhe...Thanks for the history lesson, but I was being rhetorical here--(Who was Milam? Polk? Clay? Fannin?)--the point being (I think) that these historical figures actually had a little something to do with Houston being Houston, as opposed to Gandhi, but nowadays 10 out of 10 people selected at random on the street probably couldn't ID one of 'em or make the connection.<br />As for Briar Slampohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429434912088632831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-2832611969316890922009-07-21T20:08:42.864-05:002009-07-21T20:08:42.864-05:001) I think you are right; people rarely try to cha...1) I think you are right; people rarely try to change the names of streets. WHich is good.<br />2) But occasionally it happens for whatever reason--reasons you might not agree with, admittedly.<br />3) When someone does want to change the name of the street, the method should not be to approach city council and see if you have enough pull. Hence my proposal.<br />4) It should be hard to change Robert Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210655.post-60130929215601652122009-07-21T19:46:04.140-05:002009-07-21T19:46:04.140-05:00This would be a reasonable if cumbersome process, ...This would be a reasonable if cumbersome process, IF there were a clamor to change a bunch of street names in Houston, which there isn't. (It would definitely quash these little outbreaks of ethno-narcissism, which is all the silly "Gandhi Avenue" proposal is, since the antis could out-petition the pros 20-1 or more.) The larger question is: Why rename any street at all? In Houston,Slampohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429434912088632831noreply@blogger.com