Also on the agenda for Tuesday's city council meeting is a proposal to investigate changing one of the streets in Carbondale from its current name to Martin Luther King Jr. Street. A student group pushed mightily back about 2008 to change the name of a street in town to that of MLK Jr. but the push for that only lasted about a semester and ended when the prime movers in the group graduated and left town. Since this impetus for a name change now apparently comes from community residents rather than students without long term ties to Carbondale, something will more likely happen.
Since any name change would result in significant inconvenience for any residents along the street, due to them having to update their addresses on all official correspondence. One proposed way to get around this is to make the name change unofficial as when the council voted to unofficially rename two streets after retiring council members Chris Wissmann and Jane Adams. Doing this would put King's name on street signs in town but the official name of the street would remain the same.
Since any name change would result in significant inconvenience for any residents along the street, due to them having to update their addresses on all official correspondence. One proposed way to get around this is to make the name change unofficial as when the council voted to unofficially rename two streets after retiring council members Chris Wissmann and Jane Adams. Doing this would put King's name on street signs in town but the official name of the street would remain the same.
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