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Council renames 10th Street
By Lesley Christianson
Published:
Thursday, August 5, 2004
Media Credit: Adam Hammer
Motorists cross 10th Street/Michigan Avenue on the edge of SCSU campus. City Council voted Monday to change the name of the familiar road to University Drive. The street is one of the main accesses to SCSU.
Students will start telling people to take University Drive to get to SCSU soon.
City Council members voted Monday to rename 10th Street South/Michigan Avenue to University Drive. The change came after several requests over two decades from SCSU administration.
The name change is set to take affect Aug. 1, 2005, giving residents and business owners time to change drivers' licenses, business cards and other published materials.
SCSU Vice-president for Administrative Affairs Steve Ludwig said the University has been advocating a name change for the street since 1987 when the 10th Street Bridge was re-built and renamed to University Bridge.
Ludwig said University Drive simply makes more sense than a numbered street.
"It is the road that many people use to access the University," he said. "There is confusion when you cross the bridge, and the University is the destination for many visitors."
While many residents have expressed concern over the cost in having to change their addresses, Ludwig said the post office will recognize dual addresses for another year after the change.
Others at the council meeting claimed the University should pay for the replacement of street signs, and perhaps even help with individual residents' costs.
"We'll work with the city on that change (street signs)," Ludwig said. "It can be difficult to identify costs to individuals to help pay for those changes."
Ludwig said had the City agreed to change the name when the street was under construction and new signs were installed, they could have saved on costs of changing it later.
Vice-president of St. Cloud City Council Lori Long was one of the members who voted in favor of the change.
"I didn't vote for the name change because of the University, but for the community," Long said. "It's a street that has two different names. That doesn't make sense. It (University Drive) describes the destination."
Long said she doesn't believe SCSU should be completely responsible for the price in the change, but she did say it would be nice to reach a compromise with the University.
�"First of all, there isn't a lot of cost. The University is going to benefit from it, so it would be nice if they could find a small pot of money for it," Long said. "It would be a good-will gesture."
She said the price of changing the street signs could range from $2,000 to $5,000. According to the City Planning Department, 43 residents live on the east side of the street and there are 8 properties on the west side. Long said individual costs to residents and business owners will vary depending on how many published materials each person has containing an address. She did say costs to individuals will be spread out over the two years they have to make the address change complete.
"It's the same thing when we changed Eighth Street to Veteran's Drive," Long said. "We need to be thinking about the greater good of the community."
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