CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO 4080
ADOPTING A POLICY FOR NAMING CITY PROPERTY, FACILITIES
AND STREETS
WHEREAS, it is the City of Alameda s goal to establish a uniform policy to name City facilities and portions thereof; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is responsible for a variety of public facilties, including parks and park faciliies, a golf complex, Alameda Power & Telecom facilties, libraries, Housing Authority facilties, fire stations, civic buildings, Police Department facilties, parking lots, ferry terminals, City streets and entryays to the City; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the policy is to honor persons, places, and/or events in the history of the City by naming City facilties after them; and WHEREAS, the process established by this policy acknowledges and memorializes .a specific person or event and enhances the value and heritage of the City.
. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Alameda adopts the Policy for Naming City Property, Facilties and Streets attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and incorporated herein by reference; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Alameda rescinds the previous Street Naming Policy and the Policy for Naming City Property, adopted October 1 , 1991.
EXHIBIT A
City of Alameda
Californa
April 2007
POLICY FOR NAMNG CITY PROPERTY FACILITIES AND
STREETS
INTRODUCTION:
It is the City of Alameda s goal to establish a unfonn policy to name City facilties and portions thereof, including but not limted to: Parks and Park facilities, Golf Complex, Alameda Power & Telecom facilties, Librares Housing Authority facilties, fire stations, City Hall, Police Deparent facilities parkig lots, ferr tenninals, City streets and entrays to the City.
PURPOSE:
The purose of this policy is to honor persons, places and/or events in the history of the City by naming City facilities after them. This process acknowledges and memorializes a specific person or event and enhances the value and heritage of the City.
PROCEDURES:
Boards and Commssions represent the communty, and they have direct responsibility for varous City facilities as prescribed in the City Charer and Alameda Muncipal Code. It shall be the responsibility of the following Boards and Commissions to review the list of street and facility names anually and provide additions or deletions to the Historical Advisory Board. The Boards and Commissions most closely related to these facilities wil, upon request from the City Council, make recommendations for potential names and the City Council wil grant fial approval.
Recreation Commission - City Parks, Swim Centers, Boat Ramps, and Associated Facilities
Golf Commission - Golf Complex and Associated Facilities Public Utilities Board - Alameda Power & Telecom Facilities Librar Board - Librares
Policy for Naming City Propert, Facilities and Streets - April 3, 2007 Housing Commission - Housing Authority Facilities
Planng Board - Streets and all other City facilities
*The Housing Authority of the City of Alameda is a separate legal entity from the City of Alameda. As such, the Authority Board wil take action in lieu of the City Council in naming Housing Authority facilities.
Groups from within the communty and individuals may make a recommendation to the Board or Commission at the time consideration is given to naming a facility and may initiate such action. The Board or Commission wil then forward their recommendation to the City Council. If a facility does not have a connection to a Board or Commission, the Planing Board wil be the body that recommends a name to the City Council.
The City Council wil consider a recommendation from a Board or Commission and make the final decision to name a City property or facility at a public meeting in order to receive comments in an open foru.
The Historical Advisory Board wil continue to maintain the List of Street and Facility Names, including available names and those that have been used.
Additions or deletions to the list shall be recommended by the appropriate board or commssion based on wrtten documentation of the historic importance of the name in Alameda history and as outlined in this policy and then forwarded to the City Council for final approval. Only names that appear on the list of Street and Facility Names shall be utilized for the naming of new streets or renaming of existing streets. The Planng Board shall approve names for new streets.
CRITERIA:
In selecting the name for a City property, facility or street, the following criteria shall be used:
1. A name that reflects the location of the facility by geographic area;
2. A name that reflects the history of a facility such as the family name of the builder, developer or person who may have donated the land when the individual has been deceased a minimum of three years;
3. A name that recognzes a significant contrbutor to the advancement of the City, such as a fonner Mayor, Councilmember, Board or Commission Member, offcers or employees of the City, or member of the community when the individual has been deceased a minimum of thee years;
4. A name that recognizes the donor of a signficant gift of land or fuds for City facility.
Policy for Naming City Propert, Facilities and Streets - April 3, 2007
5. A name that is listed on the List of Street and Facilty Names of the City of Alameda.
6. Only one name shall be used for each property or facility and all its varous components.
NAMING STREETS:
General Considerations for Naming Streets:
Priority shall be given to utilzing street names that represent persons, places or events associated with the historical development of the City of Alameda.
Where feasible and appropriate, historic street names shall be chosen which directly relate to that portion of the City in which the street to be named is located.
Consistency in naming shall be maintaied within a Subdivision Tract Planed Development, or other development or geographic area where street names themes curently exist, are planed or are discernble.
Street names shall remain the same across intersecting streets and throughout the length of the street.
The use of the same name but different suffces for adjacent streets shall be avoided, with the exception of a small cour or cul-de-sac adjacent to a main road. For example Brighton Cour off Brighton Road.
A street name shall not intersect another street name at more than one location.
The use of circle or loop as a suffx is not encouraged except under limited specific design situations.
Similarly spelled or pronounced street names shall be avoided withn the City.
The number of letters in the street name, including suffix, shall not exceed twenty characters and spaces in confonnance with the 911 Emergency Communcation Center system.
Designation:
In general, street names should include a suffx, such as those following, to clearly indicate that it is par of the vehicular circulation system and to minimize the possibility of confusion with development or project place names. Names lacking such suffice or ending in such words as Harbor, Isle or Point are not encouraged, except to retain the continuity of established naming schemes. Names utilizing tenns from other languages such as Embarcadero, Camino, Via and other non-typical names shall be considered individually for appropriateness, merit, and general confonnance to this policy.
Policy for Namig City Propert, Facilities and Streets - April 3, 2007 Cul-de-sac or short dead-end streets
Cour
Place
Terrace
Square
Short connecting streets generally less than 1 000 feet in length.
Lane
Curilnear streets, generally though or connecting and of higher capacity.
Drive
Way
Parkway
Boulevard
Street ruing diagonally to an established grd system
Road
Way
Generally nort-south grd streets.
Street
Generally east-west streets.
Avenue
RENAMNG CITY PROPERTY FACILITIES AND STREETS:
Should the City contemplate renaming a City property or facility, a comprehensivestudy shall be conducted to detennine how the existing name was conceived, includingan assessment of the impacts to the original honoree on renamng the facility, and the impact on the adj acent neighborhoods should the property be renamed. The appropriate Board or Commssion shall review the study prior to makng a recommendation to the City Council. At that time, it wil be at the discretion of the City Council whether or not to rename a City property or facility.
Any change to an existing street name, which would affect the addressing of any existing business or residence, shall require City Council in addition to Planing Board approval.
Policy for Namig City Propert, Facilities and Streets - April 3, 2007 , the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda during the Regular Meeting of the City Council on the 3 day of April 2007, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers deHaan , Gilmore, Matarrese, Tam
and Mayor Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 4 day of April , 2007.
Lara Weisiger, City C e k
City of Alameda