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1 INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor David Bieter and City Council FROM: Adam Park DATE: 01/07/2011 SUBJECT: 30 th Street Extension Naming Project CC: 30 th Street Naming Committee, Jade Riley, Michael Zuzel, John Brunelle, Bruce Chatterton BACKGROUND The 30 th Street Area Master Plan calls for construction of a new thoroughfare to improve transportation and help direct development in the 30 th Street Area. This roadway, currently referred to as the 30 th Street Extension, will join three existing streets to form one continuous road stretching from Fairview Avenue to State Street. As described in the 30 th Street Plan: The 30th Street Extension will be an attractive tree-lined, boulevard-style street with a landscaped center median for much of its length. It will provide improved connectivity between State Street and the Main-Fairview couplet that accommodates not only vehicle traffic but transit, bicyclists and pedestrians. It will serve as a welllocated and well-designed commuter route to and from downtown Boise, and will shift through traffic away from 27th Street. After the 30th Street Extension is built, the number of lanes in 27th Street will be reduced and it will become a quieter, neighborhood street. Final design of the 30th Street Extension will be completed early in A name for the new roadway needs to be determined for inclusion in the design plans. To that end, the 30 th Street Naming Committee was established in September 2010 to develop and carry out a public process to arrive at an appropriate name for the Extension. The committee includes representatives from PDS, Arts & History, Parks & Recreation, the Mayor s Office (both communications and Economic Development) and the president of the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association.

2 RESEARCH The committee researched and reviewed the information below along with the corresponding attachments. STREET DETAILS: Route The new 30 th Street Extension will originate at the existing intersection of Fairview Avenue and 30 th Street. It will run north on what is currently 30 th Street, then veer northeast to join an existing section of North 31 st Street. Where 31 st meets Stewart Avenue, the Extension will deviate north to join with an existing section of Rose Street. The Extension will proceed northeast and end at what is currently the intersection of State and Rose streets (See Attachments 1 & 2). Road Characteristics From Fairview to Pleasanton, the Extension will be 90 feet wide with four lanes of traffic, a center turn lane, plus bike lanes and detached sidewalks on both sides. From Pleasanton to State Street, the Extension will be feet wide, with four lanes of traffic, a tree-landscaped median strip, a tree-landscaped detached sidewalk on the west, a nonlandscaped detached sidewalk on the east, with bike lanes on both sides (See Attachment 3). HISTORY City Historian Tully Gerlach put together a brief history of the 30 th Street area, a history of the place names in the area and a corresponding map indicating the location of each historic district (Attachments 4-6). EXISTING/PROPOSED STREET NAMES Attachment 7 shows all the existing street names in the area, plus a preliminary list of names for the Extension that the committee considered. STREET NAMING ORDINANCE The Boise City ordinance pertaining to the city s street naming process. (See Attachment 8). NEIGHBORHOOD INPUT The committee also solicited input from the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association via the association president. The neighborhood direction was to seek a name that would embody the 30 th Street Area s bright future rather than something from its history. 2

3 PROCESS The committee proposed the following process be used to arrive at a final name for the extension. Step One: 30 th Street Naming Committee meets to discuss naming process, goals of the committee and to create a preliminary list of possible street names. All possible names are run through the Official Street Names List database to ensure no duplication. COMPLETED Step Two: Creation of comment webpage or survey questionnaire to solicit community and/or neighborhood feedback. COMPLETED Step Three: Citywide outreach requesting public comment on naming via informal online survey COMPLETED Step Four: 30 th Street Naming Committee meets to review information, make final recommendation. COMPLETED Step Five: Council work session to present recommendations and affirm direction. Step Six: 30 th Street Naming Committee submits final name recommendation to Ada County Street Naming Committee for approval. Step Seven: Ada County Street Naming Committee submits final name recommendation to City Council. Step Eight: City Council approves final name via resolution. 3

4 SURVEY RESULTS In December 2010, an informal, unscientific community survey was conducted to gauge support for potential names for the Extension and to gather new name possibilities. The survey was open from December 12 through December 31 and was widely publicized via television and print news outlets. Special attention was paid to getting neighborhood involvement by timing the opening of the survey with the release of a neighborhood newsletter. Respondents were limited to Boise residents ages 18 and older. A copy of the survey is attached (Attachment 9). Respondents were asked to choose from six suggested names compiled by the committee or to write in their own suggestion. The six suggested names were Rose Parkway, 30 th Street Parkway, West End Boulevard, Whittier Boulevard, Charles Hummel Boulevard (architect of the ITD headquarters on State Street) and Whitewater Way. A total of 727 responses were gathered. The results are as follows: Total Votes Total Percentage Number of Neighborhood Votes Percent of Neighborhood Votes Whitewater Way % % Mark Stall Way % % Rose Parkway % % 30th St. Parkway % % Charles Hummel Boulevard % % West End Boulevard % % Whittier Boulevard % % Boise River Variations % % River Recreation Boulevard % % Bronco/BSU Variations % % Martin Luther King Boulevard % % Coach Pete Boulevard % % Others (159 additional suggestions, each less than 1% of vote) % % TOTAL VOTES: % % Many residents suggested alternate road types for the suggested names; in addition to Whitewater Way, recommendations for Whitewater Parkway or Whitewater Boulevard were included in the tabulations for Whitewater Way. 4

5 RECOMMENDATION Though Whitewater Way did not receive overwhelming support from residents, it did receive a plurality of votes in both the neighborhood and the city, with neighborhood support significantly higher than any other name. Given the promising future of the area and the anticipated funding of the Ray Neef MD River Recreation Park, the use of Whitewater Way will provide a distinctive and appropriate personality to the area. With that in mind, the committee recommends the Council follow the survey results and select Whitewater as the name for the roadway, and that it make a determination as to whether it should be designated Whitewater Way, Whitewater Boulevard, Whitewater Parkway or Whitewater Avenue. 5

6 OO RE 30th Street Project Naming Conventions 29TH 31ST ST AT E HAZEL 27TH HAZEL 30TH M ATTACHMENT 1 RI HERON ER 28TH VI A RO SE LEMP TH 26 TH G 28 TH 29 N JO RD AN S TH OO RE DI DA VI 30 M DA VI STEWART M AN RM CT 28TH T TH U 31S 25TH ROSS 29TH WOODLAWN PLEASANTON MADISON TH CA R 34 R JEFFERSON TH 29TH Legend TH RD 30th Street Project Boundary 28TH 33 BANNOCK 30 Ada County StreetCenterlines CL AY IDAHO 30T H 30th St. Alignment OS A DRISCOLL 30TH PRO S PE WOODLAWN TH 35 REGAN 30TH 27TH IL L AR DRISCOLL B OW REGAN ROSS LL 36 S 26TH WI VAIL HESTER S S 31 D N 32 GO O AD AM LI ST EL Water Features GE 32 N D MAIN MA IN FAIRVIEW 31 ST TH Created by the Comprehensive Planning Division 30 Planning and Development Services Department September 9, 2010 EN BR OW CH I ND H [30thStrt_Names9_8_10.mxd] N EN 0T 3 R GA D I FA RV IE W E FL R HE C T ARK

7 1 of 1 9/8/ :57 AM State St. Boise - Google Maps Address W State St Boise, ID ATTACHMENT Google - Map data 2010 Google -

8 ATTACHMENT 3 30th Street Extension - Project Overview Proposed Road (future) Pedestrian Signal Jordan Davis State Gooding Moore Roundabout Esther Simplot Hester Stewart Regan Woodlawn Pleasanton Pedestrian Signal 30th Street Madison Jefferson Bannock 27th Street Idaho Main Fairview I-184 Connector Updated: 09/08/2010

9 ATTACHMENT 4 by T. Gerlach, MAHR September 1, 2010 Boise s West End The Growth and Development of Boise s Progressive-Era Suburbs Boise s historic West End neighborhoods originated during a time of growth in Boise s population and its self image. When the suburbs that today are known as the 30 th Street Area, among other names, were first platted, Boise was growing out of its origins as a rough frontier town into a city whose citizens believed themselves capable of building a modern civic community the equal of other great cities in the west. The West End, and its contemporaries to the north, reflected that ambition. Initial development in the West End began in the early 20 th century, with the platting of the Fairview Addition in 1903 and, to its immediate west, the West Side Addition in Both additions sat in a broad portion of the Boise River floodplain called the Broadway Terrace. Originally the site of the local fairgrounds in the late 19 th century, the Broadway Terrace slopes gradually away from the western edge of downtown toward the Boise River. By 1903, Boise City s area consisted primarily of its densely settled downtown core and newer residential neighborhoods growing along Warm Springs Avenue in the East End, and toward the foothills in the North End. A sustained growth surge that began in the 1890s and continued on into the 1910s created new demands for land and markets for real estate development and speculation. Fairview and West Side Additions opened up a new end in the city to meet them. The geography of the West End made for a prime suburban location. Unlike the North and East Ends, whose proximity to the foothills made for marshy, uneven land prone to flash floods, the West End enjoyed a large expanse of flat plain. Despite their site within the Broadway Terrace floodplain, Fairview and West Side were not at risk for regular flooding, and the vast gravel deposits left behind by the geological processes that carved out the terraces of the Boise River made for particularly fertile soil. Just to the north of each addition, Frank and Hester Davis, early settlers in the city, kept a large farm on which they grew fruit orchards, cultivated hay and raised sheep. With the Davis acreages offering a pastoral foreground to the foothills further north, and the city center still close enough to be convenient, the first developers of the West End could market their land as the perfect suburban combination of rural peace and urban access. 1

10 ATTACHMENT 4 The location of the West End combined with strong competition in Boise s real estate market to shape a new form of suburbs in the city. The developers of Fairview and West Side marked off their new additions in two significant ways. First, they platted their streets to the northsouth bearing of the North End rather than the northwesterly cant of the original townsite grid. Second, they platted their lots at 50 feet of width rather than the 25 feet standard at the time. Thus, they explicitly aligned their additions with the established northern suburbs, even as they directly competed with them by offering larger lots at comparable prices. The creation and expansion of streetcar lines drove growth in the West End as much as the exploding population in Boise. Built in response to and in service of the city s drastic growth, the streetcars made suburban living accessible and convenient for nearly all classes of citizens. The opening of the West End and the expansion of the streetcars made available larger lots further from the city center to classes beyond the middle and upper. Laborers and workers of smaller means were no longer confined to building cottages on 25-foot lots in the closer-in neighborhoods from which they could walk to their jobs. Despite the West End s rural aspect and easily developed land, two particulars of its location undermined its suburban character. The North and East Ends may have been irregular in grade and flood-prone, but they were well-removed from major commercial and industrial activity. Having the Boise River on its western border and the main railroad spur line to its south opened the West End to industry at its edges. Just north of the railway ran Fairview Avenue, a major east-west route between Boise and the communities further west, and the only river crossing connecting downtown to the western Bench. The proximity of two major transit routes suited commercial development, which filled in the southern stretches of the West End from shortly after their initial platting to the present day. Recognizing this potential, the first West End developers platted the lots that encompassed the railroad right-of-way in large, irregular shapes. In 1906, the Coast Lumber Company established a finished carpentry mill reputed to be one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest on a large lot south of Fairview and east of the riverbank, where they operated until the 1920s. When Idaho embarked on a concerted program of highway-building beginning in 1914 and continuing on into the 1930s, it designated Fairview as a state and later national highway. In 1926, the Transportation Department established equipment storage and materials testing laboratories on the former site of the Coast Mill. During the same period, at least six oil companies built tank sites in the river bottoms south of Fairview. The Goodman Oil Company, the facilities of 2

11 ATTACHMENT 4 which still stand today just east of the Fairview Bridge, planted no fewer than fourteen gasoline storage tanks on the river bank. The Boise River at its western edge posed the second threat to the West End s suburban character. Even after the annexation of Fairview and West Side Additions into the city around 1912, the riverbanks remained outside the city limits, as they would up until the 1960s. Being outside the limits freed riverside industries from what few industrial restrictions there were in Boise in the early twentieth century, chief of which being the banning of slaughterhouses within city limits. From Boise s founding until well into the late twentieth century, the Boise River, far from being considered the civic and environmental amenity it is today, was viewed as unfit for residential development and best suited as an industrial waste and sewage-removal system. Slaughterhouses, like the later oil tank farms, generated a great amount of effluent and used the river as a dumping ground. By 1912, two slaughterhouses operated on the riverbank at the western edge of the West Side Addition, one an extensive outfit with stock pens and a sausage factory. By the 1930s, the Quinn-Robbins company purchased the riverside land and closed the slaughterhouses to begin excavation of the rich gravel stores of the Broadway Terrace. Until the late 1980s, gravel quarries and a later cement plant, and the attendant noise, pollution and traffic, operated on the West End s western flank. The steady presence of heavy industry effectively stalled residential development in the area, and though by 1912 several modest homes had been built on West Side s eastern edge, just adjacent to the 27 th Street streetcar line and Fairview Addition, the bulk of early West End development happened centrally, in Fairview and the Pleasanton Addition of With the development of Pleasanton Addition, the West End lost its rural character, but grew into a new role as a Progressive-Era suburb. When streetcar building in Boise began, Hester Davis granted a right-of-way through her rural property in order to connect the Valley Road State Street today to Fairview Avenue by means of what became 27 th Street. By 1908, with the streetcar lines complete, Davis, 17 years a widow and approaching 70 years of age, finally shut down her farming operations and subdivided her land into the Pleasanton Addition. Though adjacent to Fairview Addition and maintaining its 50-foot lot pattern, Pleasanton at first aligned closer to the Ellis Addition platted in 1906 in standard 25-foot lots just across the Valley Road in the North End. With Boise still in the thick of its twenty-year boom of , Pleasanton and Ellis became the additions of choice for Boise s growing middle-class and their preferred style of home, the bungalow. 3

12 ATTACHMENT 4 As Pleasanton developed, its residents brought a new civic consciousness to bear on the suburban ideal. By 1911, they formed a Pleasanton Club dedicated to the promotion and improvement of their neighborhood. In 1912, the residents of Pleasanton joined with those of Ellis to petition for annexation into the city. Until the 1960s, Boise s City Charter prohibited the city from forcibly annexing contiguous neighborhoods. Additions wishing to be part of the city were required to petition the city for entry and then to hold a vote amongst residents. Though many additions, such as Fairview and West Side, went through the process with little fanfare, Pleasanton and Ellis made a public affair of it, with formal presentations to the City Council, vigorous lobbying within the neighborhoods, and a concerted get-out-the-vote effort on election day, all of which received extensive coverage in the Idaho Statesman. The annexation passed and the city made immediate plans to extend municipal services into the neighborhoods. Though a desire for amenities such as sidewalks, electricity and sewers motivated the citizens of Pleasanton and Ellis, a Progressive civics also animated their drive for inclusion in the greater city. Despite its newness and remoteness, Boise participated in the new Progressive reform era of the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century. Though Boise lacked many of the urban ills that drove reformers in the east, Boise s citizens embraced the ideas of civic engagement and responsibility that grew out of the movement. During this period, Boise began concerted efforts to pave roads, build sidewalks and sewers and extend electricity and water lines into its neighborhoods, and the majority of the citizens willingly paid the taxes necessary to make it all happen. Boise also embarked upon its ambitious tree-planting project, driven largely by private citizens and service clubs, the success of which led to the desert city s later appellation as the City of Trees. Civic participation, beautification and improvement inspired the growing population of Boise, who believed that they could build a city the cultural and aesthetic equal of any in the west, and even the country at large. Although still a suburb, Pleasanton, and its neighbors to the north and south, no longer idealized a rustic, rural, mode of living. Urban and urbane, Pleasanton began the process of bringing the suburbs into the city. After 1910, Boise s explosive growth began to taper off, ending suburban growth and consolidating the established neighborhoods. With civic improvements installed and many lots available, the West End, like later additions in the North and East Ends, filled in steadily from the 1910s through the 1930s. In 1910, Hester Davis platted the remaining portion of her lands into the Frank Davis Addition, just west of Pleasanton across 27 th. In the same year, real estate developers 4

13 ATTACHMENT 4 platted the former farmlands west of Davis holdings into the Hubbell Home Addition. Each addition remained unimproved and outside of the city limits until later in the century, and when growth dropped off, so did sales of rural lots. With Boise s population interested in proper neighborhoods with standard amenities, Frank Davis and Hubbell Home could not compete with the established additions closer in. Despite a few sales and homes built, each addition remained largely empty until later in the century, when Frank Davis, like western West Side, filled in primarily with low-income housing and apartment complexes. A few homes were built on Hubbell Home s eastern edge of Rose Street, but the addition remained entirely vacant until the State purchased it in the mid-1960s to build the new Transportation Department headquarters. Yet infill continued on in the greater West End, and by the end of the 1940s and the beginning of Boise s next boom, most of Fairview and Pleasanton, like the North and East Ends, were built up with a variety of early-century architectural styles. Boise s post-war patterns of transit and suburban development shaped the fate of the West End in the latter half of the twentieth century. Even as the residential center grew and stabilized from the 1910s to the 1940s, State Street to the north and Fairview to the south became major highways. As car traffic increased after the closure of the streetcars in 1929, 27 th Street became a major traffic corridor itself, connecting the two thoroughfares. Main Street, just north of Fairview, evolved into the westbound half of a couplet with Fairview, which moved traffic east. Main and Fairview, and State west of 23 rd Street shifted further towards commercial development, particularly that which oriented toward automobile traffic. Gas and service stations, hotels and motels, drive-through restaurants and banks and car dealerships sprang up along all three roads. These, the freight trains still running on the tracks to the south, and the ongoing quarrying interests working to the west, hemmed in the West End with traffic, commerce and industry, and effaced its intact historical identity. The commercial and traffic pressures on the West End eased up by the close of the century, but by then the neighborhoods had not formed a historical identity like their counterparts to the north and east. Although the western and southern edges showed signs of disinvestment particularly along the Fairview-Main couplet and the former quarry sites the residential center maintained its integrity. Even as the residents of the North and East Ends embraced their histories and successfully lobbied for historic district designations in the late twentieth century, the West End remained unnoticed as a historic neighborhood itself. It is in fact the case that the West End is 5

14 ATTACHMENT 4 not called or known as the West End, and its neighborhoods are part of the broader Veterans Park Neighborhood Association. Regardless of its current status, the area of the city that constitutes its historic first western suburbs remains a neighborhood the development of which played a significant role in Boise s maturing civic growth of the early twentieth century. As a new suburban form accessible to a range of classes and as an indicator of the increasingly sophisticated self-image of Boiseans and their aspirations for their city, the West End shaped and reflected the growth of the city during a crucial era of its history. 6

15 ATTACHMENT 5 Appendix: West End Place Names By Tully Gerlach West End: Properly, there is no area or neighborhood in Boise known as or called The West End. The term was coined by Dr. Todd Shallat of Boise State University to describe the neighborhoods known as the 30 th Street Extension Impact Area. West End is used by this author and others to denote the neighborhoods bounded by State Street to the north, the Main/Fairview couplet to the south, 19 th Street to the east, the Boise River to the west and Rose Street to the northwest. West End should be understood as distinct from West Boise, the term used to describe the suburban neighborhoods that sprawl across the west Bench towards Meridian. End is typically a historic designation, denoting the early physical limits of a city, either geographically or politically. The West End was the westernmost limit of Boise in the early twentieth century, just as the North and East Ends were the contemporary limits in those directions. Where the North and East Ends maintained their historic names even as the city grew beyond them to the north and east, the West End did not, though it is historically and geographically analogous to both. The term West End restores proper historic context and redresses the elision of this area from standard understandings and classifications of Boise s historic neighborhoods. The West End is also known as the 30 th Street Area, in a planning context, and more commonly as the Veterans Park Neighborhood. Veterans Park Neighborhood: The West End is part of what is known as the Veterans Park Neighborhood and the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association, which also includes the neighborhoods adjacent to the park in the Clithero Street area. The State of Idaho began planning to build a park at the site of the old Veterans Home in the early 1970s. The original plan for the park covered an area from its current location southwest to Main Street, encompassing all of the gravel pits along the riverbank. In anticipation of the new park, the Ada Council of Governments commissioned an impact study on the adjacent neighborhoods in This plan termed all the neighborhoods, including the West End, as the Veterans Park Neighborhood. 1

16 ATTACHMENT 5 When the state attempted to purchase the lands adjacent to the West End, the owners, the Quinn family, refused to sell, as they were still pulling several thousand tons of gravel out of their quarries at the time. When completed in 1976, Veterans Park ended up being smaller than planned, but the name stuck to the West End neighborhoods, and the neighborhood association kept it when it formed in Though many residents identify their area as the Veterans Park Neighborhood, some fiercely, the name is based on an unfulfilled plan and is not accurate geographically or historically. When the City builds the Esther Simplot Park on the former Quinn properties, the Veterans Park name will be confusing and obsolete. Quinn s Pond: The pond just east of the Greenbelt north of Main Street is named for the Quinn family, who owned most of the riverside land from Main to Veterans Park throughout the twentieth century. The Quinns also ran the Quinn-Robbins contracting company, whose sign above their offices at River and Americana was a familiar sight to several generations of Boiseans. Quinn s Pond, as well as the former Bob Rice Ford lot just to its south, is an old gravel quarry pit. The riverbanks along this stretch of the Boise River are part of the Broadway Terrace and particularly rich in gravel deposits. In 1914, the Idaho State Highway Commission opted to replace the volcanic ash surfaces of the state highways with gravel surfaces, making gravel excavation a highly profitable enterprise. Fairview: The Fairview Addition was so named because it was the site of the fairgrounds through the late nineteenth century, and for Fairview Avenue which, running just to the south, gave a literal view of the fair. By the 1903 platting of Fairview Addition, the fairgrounds had moved a mile west up the road, to where the intersection of Fairview and Orchard is today. The developers also played on the connotations of the name, for with the river to the west, the Davis farms to the north, and the undeveloped foothills beyond, the view was most certainly quite fair. West Side: The developers of the West Side Addition went for the descriptive rather than the evocative, which ended up fitting the humbler neighborhood, home to workers of smaller means and industrial activities on its periphery. Until Boise finally annexed the west Bench much later in the century, this was indeed the West Side of town. Today, the West Side Drive-In, which is not in the West Side Addition, is the only remaining indicator of this historic position. 2

17 ATTACHMENT 5 Pleasanton: Evidence suggests that Hester Davis called her house, or perhaps even her entire farm, Pleasanton. When she began developing and selling her land, she kept the name for her first Addition, which included her home and in which she kept a sizeable lot for herself. (The Davis home still stands today at the northwest corner of State and 25 th Streets. The angled streets at the head of Pleasanton are so in order to bypass the house.) The early residents of Pleasanton took the name to heart, forming neighborhood improvement associations and lobbying for annexation into the city. Today, it is still identified as Pleasanton within the Veterans Park Neighborhood. Frank Davis and Hester Davis Additions: In 1910, Hester Davis developed the rest of her farmlands fronting the Valley Road (also called Park Place at that time) just to the northwest of Pleasanton, across 28 th Street and the streetcar line. (The 28 th Street of 1910 is 27 th Street today.) Davis named this addition for her late husband Frank, who died in An early settler in Boise City, Frank Davis was brother to Tom Davis, one of the city s founders and for whose wife Julia Davis Park is named. Although the exact reasons are not known, it appears to be the case that Hester Davis did not get along with her sister-in-law. Julia was a leading society matron, while Hester seems to have preferred the rural life of her farm, which she managed and maintained for two decades after her husband s death. Not a retiring widow by any means, Hester was an active member of the First Methodist Church, and hosted large church picnics on her lawn in 1915 and In 1911, Davis platted the remainder of her lands, south of Frank Davis and north of West Side. In this instance, she allowed herself, or allowed her surveyors and land agents, the vanity of naming it after herself. Hubbell Home Addition: In 1910, Hester Davis' neighbor to the northwest, another widow and successful farmer and landowner, began subdividing her land. The Hubbell Home Addition consisted of around 54 acres of fertile farmland once owned by Norman S. and Elizabeth Hubbell. Norman Hubbell settled in Boise in 1872, opening a butcher shop as his first business venture and later expanding into sheep ranching. Around 1890 he and his family moved to a farm between the Davis property and the Soldiers' Home further northwest, where they cultivated apples, prunes, wheat and alfalfa. In May 1900, Hubbell died of sudden heart failure in a blacksmith shop 3

18 ATTACHMENT 5 downtown, leaving his wife Elizabeth in possession of the farm. In 1910, Elizabeth Hubbell sold the property to a pair of real estate investors for the reputed sum of $50,000, allowing her to move to a downtown home where, as the Statesman reported at the time, "she can spend her declining years free from the cares and responsibilities of ranch life." Today, the Idaho Transportation Department campus occupies almost the entire Hubbell Home Addition. Of the original street grid, only Rose Street remains, marking the northwest boundary of the West End. Street Names: Like all streets in the city core and North End, the West End utilized the standard practice of numbering the north-south and naming the east-west streets. Although the Fairview Addition butted against the neighboring McCarty Addition at a cant Fairview being oriented north-south while McCarty maintained the original townsite northeasterly bearing the developers kept the names of the major downtown streets and aligned their grid as close as they could to them. Thus, the distinct turning that Main, Idaho, Bannock and Jefferson make at 19 th Street as they transition into the West End. The southeast track of the Valley Road on its route into the city left Pleasanton a bit further north than the McCarty Addition and without contiguous streets to its east. Running a line from its grid into that of the North End across the Valley Road, Hester Davis surveyors hit close matches with Ada, Sherman and Alturas Streets, and so named the northernmost east-west streets in Pleasanton. This naming scheme extended into the Frank Davis Addition, except that with this addition being north of Pleasanton, it had extra, non-contiguous streets. The developers opted to maintain the pattern of the North End Streets whose names they were appropriating, and after Alturas came Eastman, Brumback and Ridenbaugh, just as in the North End. In Pleasanton, Ada, Sherman and Alturas, though physically unconnected, bore at least an approximate spatial relation to their namesakes in the North End. No similar relation existed between the upper Frank Davis Addition and the streets whose names it bore. Hubbell Home Addition maintained a grid pattern roughly contiguous to that of Frank Davis, but with no continuity in the street names. Hubbell Home did, however, use the same pattern of appropriating the names of North End streets. Like Frank Davis, Hubbell Home used Alturas Street, but pushed it up to one block away from the Valley Road. For the three streets below, it used Sherman, Ada, and Resseguie, though it called them Avenues rather than Streets. 4

19 ATTACHMENT 5 While this pattern did maintain the order of those streets real progression, it bore no real spatial relation to them whatsoever, only a loose association with streets better-known as part of the North End. For its cross streets, Hubbell Home eschewed the traditional numbering system and here advertised its rural roots with Rose, Cherry, Pine and Vine Streets. Beginning in 1912, a process of street re-numbering and re-naming in the North and West Ends contributed to the separation of each into distinct areas of their own. Changes happened first in Fairview and Pleasanton. In July, 1912, the City Engineer recommended to the City Council that Washington Street be renamed to Madison, presumably after the president, and State Street to Resseguie. Although changing State to Resseguie maintained the effort to synchronize the layout of West End streets with those of the North End, Madison was unique, and marked the first of later changes in street names throughout Pleasanton. The engineer also recommended that the Park Avenue/Valley Road duality be laid to rest and the road rechristened State Street, in continuity with the downtown street with which it junctioned, and the former State Street did not. The council agreed to the changes, and the process of renaming non-contiguous streets in the West End began. Street renumbering occurred soon after the initial renaming of streets in Fairview and Pleasanton. Of all subjects in Boise history, the renumbering of streets in the North and West Ends remains one of the most confusing and obscure. For the purposes of this Appendix, all that need be noted is that in 1913 or 1914, Boise renumbered several of the north-south streets in large parts of the North End west of Harrison Boulevard and all of the West End. Thus, all West End number streets are today one digit lower than their original designations. After the first renaming and subsequent renumbering of streets, the residents of Pleasanton took the lead in further adapting their street names for a unique location. Rejecting the original attempt to link their neighborhood to the North End, in July 1921, they referred a petition to the city to change the names of Resseguie, Ada, Sherman and Alturas, maintaining that these streets had no connection with the streets of similar names in older portions of the city. At a meeting later that month, the City Council approved all changes, and so Resseguie became Pleasanton, Ada changed to Woodlawn, Sherman to Regan and Alturas to Stewart. The names Pleasanton and Woodlawn reflected the distinct identity and sense of place the residents felt for their neighborhood. Regan honored First Lieutenant John Regan, killed in action in the First World War and Stewart the late chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court George H. Stewart. It is unclear 5

20 ATTACHMENT 5 what, if any connection either man had with the West End. Judge Stewart lived on 5 th Street, and Lieutenant Regan s home prior to service is as yet undetermined. It is possible that the civicminded residents of Pleasanton wished to incorporate the names of two honored and honorable citizens into their neighborhood. By declaring their uniqueness and actively taking part in the reidentification of their neighborhoods, the citizens of the upper West End definitively broke off their relationship with the North End and claimed a distinct identity of their own. At some point as yet undetermined, street names were also changed in the two Davis Additions. Aside from Davis and Hester Streets, the origins of the names Driscoll, Ross, Moore, Gooding and Jordan Streets are unknown. It can be presumed that they are named after distinguished Idahoans and/or local property owners. 6

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22 ATTACHMENT 7 30 th St. Naming Project Street Names List September 20, 2010 Existing Area Street Names Rose Street (will become part of new 30 th St.) ITD Drive Davis St. Jordan St. Gooding St. Moore St. Hester St. Vail St. Stewart Ave. Regan Ave. Woodlawn Ave. Pleasanton Ave. Madison Ave. W. Jefferson St. W. Bannock St. W. Idaho St. Main St. W. Fairview Avenue. Ross St. Fletcher St. Tin Pan Alley St. N. 32 nd St. N. 31 st St. (a portion will become new 30 th St.) 30 th St. N. 30 th St. N. 29 th St. N. 28 th St. N. 27 th St. (arterial) N. 26 th St. N. 25 th St. N. 24 th St. N. 23 rd St. N. 22 nd St. N. 21 st. St. Possible 30 th St. Names Rose St. Rose Blvd. West End Blvd. West Side Blvd. West Blvd. Whitewater Way River Recreation Blvd. Park Blvd. Simplot Blvd. Esther Simplot Blvd. Albertson Blvd. 30 th St. Quinn Blvd. Pleasanton Blvd. Quarry Ave. Quarry Blvd. Davis Blvd. Hester Davis Blvd.

23 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code Chapter 9-06 UNIFORM STREET NAMES AND ADDRESS REGULATIONS Sections: SHORT TITLE PURPOSE DEFINITIONS APPROVALS REQUIRED DESIGNATION OF STREET NAMES STREET ADDRESS NUMBERING VARIANCES VIOLATIONS PENALTIES VALIDITY FEES Section SHORT TITLE This Ordinance shall be known as and cited as "The Boise City Uniform Street Name and Address Number Ordinance". Section PURPOSE This Ordinance is adopted for the purpose of providing proper implementation, administration and enforcement of a uniform street name and address number grid system to assist the public, public safety, and emergency services providers in the consistent identification of roadways and property addresses. This Ordinance shall apply to all lands within the corporate limits of Boise City and Areas of Boise City Impact. (Ord. No. 5726, Amended, 04/30/96) Section DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words, and derivations shall have the meaning given herein. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory. A. ASSOCIATION: Ada Planning Association; B. COMMITTEE: The Ada County Street Name Committee. An advisory group composed of the Ada County engineer, Association representative, Boise City Fire Department representative, a Department representative, and a District representative; C. COUNCIL: Council of Boise City; D. CUL-DE-SAC: A dead end street or road with a turn around space at its terminus; E. DISTRICT: Ada County Highway District; F. DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works of Boise City; Page 1 of 7

24 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code G. PERSON: Any individual, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation. H. PLAT: Subdivision plat; I. STREET: A right-of-way providing vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties and includes the terms street, drive, court, road, way, avenue, boulevard, place and other such terms; J. OFFICIAL STREET NAME MAP: The map or maps showing all the streets within Boise City with the official name shown thereon as may be approved by the Council and filed with and maintained by the Department or its designee; K. OFFICIAL STREET NAME LIST: The list containing the official street names within Boise City composed of all street names as may be approved by the Council and filed with and maintained by the Department or its designee; L. OFFICIAL ADDRESS NUMBER MAP: The map or maps showing all the streets within Boise City with the official address number grid systems and address numbers maintained by the Department or its designee. (Ord. No. 5726, Amended, 04/30/96) Section APPROVALS REQUIRED A. Before any street is named, approval for the name shall be obtained from the Council upon recommendation from the Committee. Official street names shall be maintained on an Official Street Name Map and Official Street Name List on file with the Department or its designee. B. Before any grid system is established for the purpose of assigning address numbers, or before any existing grid system is changed, it must be approved by the Council upon recommendation from the Department or its designee. All official grid systems shall be shown on the Official Address Number Map maintained by the Department or its designee. (Ord. 3655; ) (Ord. No. 5726, Amended, 04/30/96) Section DESIGNATION OF STREET NAMES A. The Council shall establish an Official Street Name List and thereafter all new streets shall be established in accordance with the same general standards hereinafter set forth. B. There shall be no duplication of street names by sound or spelling. Differentiation shall not be by the addition of suffixes such as road, street or lane. C. Names for future street dedications may be suggested by the person or agency proposing the street dedication subject to provisions of this Ordinance. The Council, upon recommendation of the Department and/or the Committee, shall determine what constitutes a separate street. D. The following suffixes shall be used in designating street names: 1. Street: An East-West street generally running in a straight line. 2. Avenue: A North-South street generally running in a straight line. Page 2 of 7

25 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code 3. Drive: A street generally meandering in an East-West direction. 4. Way: A street generally meandering in a North-South direction. 5. Court: An East-West dead-end cul-de-sac street intersecting an north-south street. 6. Place: A North-South dead-end cul-de-sac street intersecting an east-west street. 7. Boulevard: An eighty foot (80') or greater width street providing vehicular and pedestrian access to adjacent properties and is generally separated by a median strip, usually landscaped. 8. Road: A designated major street which extends through both urban and rural areas. E. Private road (street not dedicated to nor maintained by the District) shall have the suffix "Lane." Any private road which has two (2) or more addresses shall be officially named. F. The use of "road or "boulevard" shall be by designation of the Committee upon recommendation of the District based upon the function and improvements of such streets. G. A cul-de-sac having a length of two hundred feet (200') or more (as measured from the centerline of the intersecting street to the point of radius or centroid of the cul-de-sac), shall be named unless the cul-de-sac is merely a change in direction of a named street. H. A proposed street shall be considered in general alignment with an existing street if it is less than one hundred fifty feet (150') from centerline to centerline. Where the proposed street is on the same alignment and a continuation of an existing street, the name of the existing street shall be maintained with the appropriate designation. Where a street is on the same alignment but not linked to an existing street, the Council, upon recommendation of the Department and the Committee, shall designate a name giving preference to existing names. I. Where a proposed street dedication unites two (2) differently named streets located on the same alignment, the Council, upon recommendation of the Department and the Committee, shall designate one of the existing names to be used, giving consideration to the length, collector status, period of usage and number of residents affected. J. Streets shall be given the prefix "North", "South", "East", or "West", based on their relationship to the grid system base lines. K. If a street makes a very obvious change in direction as determined by the Department or its designee, a new street name shall be assigned except as herein provided. Whenever this situation occurs, the change of street name may occur at an intersection rather than the point where the direction changes. L. Officially accepted private road(s) (lane[s]) shall be listed on the Official Street Name List with the accompanying designation "private". Applications for private road name(s) shall be made to the Department and referred to the Committee for recommendation and approved by Council. Private road sign(s) for interior private roads may be manufactured by a private company provided the product is in conformance with District standards and this Ordinance. Interior private road signs shall not be maintained by the District. Page 3 of 7

26 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code 1. The District shall approve the installation of private road sign(s) within the public rightof-way. 2. Owners of properties on private roads shall be responsible for the cost of manufacture, installation and maintenance of street sign(s). All private road(s) shall have sign(s) indicating its name and status as "private." M. Street names for proposed subdivisions shall be shown on preliminary and final plats in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and: 1. No final plat shall be certified by the City for processing to City Council until the street names proposed have been checked against the Official Street Name Map and List by the Department and reviewed by the Committee. 2. Subdividers shall be encouraged to use an overall theme when proposing street names. 3. No plat shall be approved by the City Engineer until all provisions of this Ordinance have been complied with. 4. Subdividers shall erect street name signs at their own expense to District standards and at District designated locations. N. Street names may be changed as follows: 1. Written request by the applicant shall be made to the Department to change a street name, or the Department may recommend changes to the Council in street names for reasons of duplication, similar pronunciation or spelling, or for other reasons relating to public safety or convenience. Following such request or recommendation, the council may hold a public hearing if deemed necessary. Applicant(s) shall be required to pay for street signs as a condition of street name change. 2. If a street name change is deemed necessary, the Council, upon recommendation of the Department and the Committee, shall determine the street name. The following circumstances in addition to others, may be considered in changing street names: the number of existing addresses, the length of time the street name has been used, the date of the original dedication of the street, and the possible inconvenience to residents, property owners and the public. 3. No street names may be changed until the proposed name change has been checked with the Official Street Name Map and List, and has received recommendation of the Department and the Committee. O. All street name signs shall be located to be clearly visible to persons operating vehicles. The lettering of the street name shall be a minimum of four inches (4") in height; however, all letters designating north, south, east or west shall be not less than two inches (2") in height. All lettering shall be of such color and width to contrast sharply with the board or plate upon which the lettering is placed and shall be in accordance with District standards. Said board or plate shall be a minimum of six inches (6") in width. All street name signs shall have the street names lettered on both sides of the board or plate. (Ord. 3697; ) P. In general, street names shall not be over ten (10) letters in length including spaces, unless Page 4 of 7

27 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code otherwise approved by the District in writing. All street names shall conform to this limitation except where existing names are to be continued due to alignments. (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section STREET ADDRESS NUMBERING A. All street address numbers shall conform to the grid system of Boise City shown on the Official Address Number Map List on file at the Department or its designee. The general standards to be used in developing a street address grid system are as follows: 1. Sixteen (16) grid blocks to the mile with three hundred thirty feet (330') between grid lines; and 2. A standard one hundred (100) numbers per grid. B. It shall be the duty of the owners and/or occupants of every dwelling and business to have placed or installed thereon in a place visible from the street, house or building, address numbers as hereinafter directed. C. All address numbers shall be assigned by the Department or its designee. No other person or organization, public or private, shall assign any address number to any residence, business, industry or use. D. The Department and any person shall comply with the following requirements: 1. Only one number shall be assigned to each business, use or dwelling unit. 2. Numbers shall be assigned to vacant lots within platted subdivisions and shall otherwise be assigned in such a manner that adequate numbers are reserved for possible future developments or resubdivisions of land. 3. All address numbers shall be assigned for the street (or road) upon which the structure fronts. When vehicular access is used from a point other than the street frontage, the number shall be placed so as to be visible from the street from which it is addressed, and additional access direction signage may be required, if requested by the Fire Department. 4. All addresses located on the north and east sides of streets shall be even numbers. All addresses on the south and west sides of streets shall be odd numbers. These requirements may be changed in the case of meandering streets. When a street has been determined to be running in predominately one direction, the numbering shall not be changed if there are slight changes in street direction. 5. The owner of each building, house or structure shall post the assigned address number on said structure in such a manner to be clearly visible from the street (or road). The numbers shall be at least four inches (4") high. 6. Existing address numbers not in conformance with the Official Address Number System Map may be changed by the Department giving written notice at least ninety (90) days in advance of the effective date to property owners affected by such changes. New address numbers must be Page 5 of 7

28 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code posted on the property by the effective date. 7. Addresses for apartments, condominiums, commercial suites or other instances of multiple occupancy within a single structure or complex shall be addressed according to the procedures adopted by the Department. (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section VARIANCES The standards and requirements of these regulations may be modified or varied by the Council where the enforcement of the rules will result in an extraordinary individual hardship provided that the public interest is served. The applicant must specifically state, in writing, the extraordinary hardship caused by the ordinance and prove said variance will not cause an adverse affect to the health, safety and welfare of the community. In granting any such variance or modification, the Council may require conditions as will, in its judgment, secure substantial compliance with the intent of this Ordinance. (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section VIOLATIONS It shall be unlawful for any person: A. To erect or install a street name sign not in accordance with the Official Street Name Map and without prior approval as provided herein. B. To remove, alter, change or otherwise deface a street name sign which exists as provided herein. C. To place or post address numbers not approved or assigned. (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section PENALTIES Any person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300.00) or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days or be both so fined and imprisoned. (Ord. 3655; ) (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section VALIDITY Should any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, or any particular application thereof, be declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Ordinance. (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Section FEES Page 6 of 7

29 ATTACHMENT 8 Boise Municipal Code Fees shall be required by the applicant or appellant as listed below: A. Street name changes in accordance with N.: $100 B. Variances: $25.00 (5726, Amended, 04/30/1996) Page 7 of 7

30 1 of 2 1/4/ :59 PM Introduction - Page 1 ATTACHMENT 9 Please take our survey. * indicates a required field In 2006, the City of Boise and neighborhood leaders began work on the 30th Street Area Master Plan to direct development in the 30th Street area. A major component of the plan is the creation of the 30th Street Extension, a new roadway that will join existing streets to form one continuous thoroughfare stretching from Fairview Avenue to State Street. This new street will have four lanes of traffic (two north-bound and two south-bound), two bike lanes, sidewalks on each side, and tree landscaping in the center median and western sidewalk for half its length. The roadway will connect 30th Street near the Shilo Inn to Rose Street near the Idaho Department of Transportation headquarters on State Street. The road will pass near the site of the proposed Ray Neef MD River Recreation Park. A name for the new roadway needs to be determined for inclusion in the design plans that will be completed in early The purpose of this survey is to determine the amount of community support for current name proposals and to gather additional ideas for other possible names. All current Boise residents age 18 or older are allowed to vote once in this informal survey. The information gathered will be used by the Boise City Council when they make the final determination of the new street name. There will be multiple opportunities for additional public comment before a final decision is made. 1. Are you a current resident of the City of Boise? * Yes No Do you reside within the 30th Street Area? The 30th Street Area is a district bounded by Irene Street on the north, the I-184 Connector to the south, 23rd Street to the east, and the Boise River to the west.