2005 AGN APR 19 I02 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STREET NAME CHANGE IN THE CITY OF COLTON 1 . Please provide all three name choices. Applications containing less than three choices shall include a letter explaining the reason for the specific name. A complete road name includes a directional description such as Drive, Street, Road, Court, Lane, Boulevard, Way, Loop, etc. 2. We cannot accept alterations to road name choices without the initialed consent of each petitioner. Verbal consent to any alteration made on the petition will not be accepted. 3. Description of property and parcel number as it appears on your tax statement. 4. A majority of the property owners, addressed on the road, must sign the petition. Please include their parcel numbers. Each individual must sign the petition when property is jointly owned. 5. Attach a vicinity map (maps are available from the Assessor's Office) showing the road to be renamed. Please highlight the road. 6. Historic names and/or names referring to applicable geographic features shall be used wherever practicable. 7. Names of existing streets shall be used on new streets which are continuations of, or in alignment with, existing streets. 8. Streets shall not be named after any commercial organization or in a manner to honor any living person. 9. The use of thoroughfare designations, whether prefixes or suffixes, such as drive, place, walk, via, avenida, etc., shall not be considered as affecting a distinction in the basic name. It shall be the policy of the City of Colton Traffic Committee to use the definitions contained in the adopted definitions list (attached). Definitions of Street Name Suffixes and Prefixes, as a basis of determining the appropriate thoroughfare designation prefix or suffix, are to be applied to any street right of way to be named or renamed. 10. East and west thoroughfares shall be called streets, and north and south thoroughfares shall be called avenues. 11. Streets adjacent to a freeway shall be given different names on each side of such freeway. 12. The use of cardinal prefixes, such as North, South, East, and West, shall not be considered part of the basic or base name. 13. A street name shall not contain more than 18 -letter characters, including any combinations of spaces, letters, or punctuation designations in the base portion of the name. 14. The use of compound names shall be discouraged.