Firebaugh Municipal Code § 2-14 Procedures for Naming and Renaming City Facilities

[Ord. #80-2, S1A; Ord. #99-08, S1]

a. "City facility" shall mean any real property or interest therein and improvements thereon owned and operated by the City. "City facility" shall include a street or other right-of-way or easement owned and used or operated by the City.

[Ord. #80-1, SB; Ord. #99-08, S2]

a. The Council shall name and rename City facilities as provided by this section 2-14, unless the Council deems that exigent circumstances justify dispensing with the requirements of this section by resolution passed by at least four affirmative votes of the Council and containing a declaration of the facts constituting the exigent circumstances.

b. The Council shall name or rename a City facility from any of the following categories: Deceased or living individuals, places, events, organizations, political subdivisions, functions, flora, fauna, civic names, or symbolic names. The Council shall select a name based upon such name's historical or other significance to the City.

c. This section shall not apply to the naming or renaming of the following types of City facilities:

1. Any City facility designated by a departmental number or letter, including but not limited to the designation of fire and pump stations, except as a supplemental name to such facility.

2. Any facility donated to and accepted by the City, the donation of which is contingent upon assigning a specified name to the facility.

3. Any City facility constructed or purchased from money or property donated to and accepted by the City, which money or property is donated contingent upon assigning a specified name to the facility.

4. Any City facility owned or managed jointly by the City and any other person or public entity.

The following guidelines shall apply to name selection:

a. Unusual spellings or difficult pronunciations shall be avoided where possible.

b. Street names shall:

1. Not duplicate or be similar in sound or spelling.

2. Follow existing alignments including jogs of not more than 125 in either side of the principal or existing alignment; including extensions of alignments into new subdivisions; the street name shall not follow a 90° or more turn unless the turn is a simple jag followed by a return to the original alignment.

3. Cul-de-sacs whose length, exclusive of the turn around, is less than 50 feet shall be named the same as the main road.

c. Procedures:

The Council shall name or rename a City facility in accordance with the following procedures:

1. Any resident of the City may request that a City facility be named or renamed by submitting a written request to that effect to the City Manager.

[Ord. #80-1, SD; Ord. #99-08, 53]

The decision of the council to name or rename a city facility shall be by majority vote. The decision of the council shall be final.