OXNARD : City to Name Street After Cesar Chavez
More than a year after the death of Cesar Chavez, the Oxnard City Council agreed Tuesday to recognize the United Farm Workers union organizer with a street named in his honor.
The approval to name a new street after Chavez came without any of the acrimony that has accompanied previous proposals to rename a street in La Colonia, where Chavez spent part of his childhood.
Mayor Manuel M. Lopez has worked since Chavez’s death on April 23, 1993, to name a street in Oxnard after the union organizer.
But respondents to a survey of 139 residents and property owners in La Colonia said they opposed a plan to rename Garfield Avenue after Chavez, said Community Development Director Richard Maggio.
Twenty-eight of the 33 residents who responded to the survey said they opposed the name change, Maggio told the council.
The new Chavez Street would most likely run south of Gonzales Road on either side of Rose Avenue when construction begins on the Northeast Community Specific Plan neighborhood.
Councilman Bedford Pinkard requested Tuesday that a second proposal to name a future street after Martin Luther King Jr. be continued.
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