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Conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance renaming Plantation Road to Tommie Lee Wyatt Lane and waiving certain sections of City Code Chapter 14-5 (Street Name Change). Funding: $1,592 is available in the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Operating Budget of Austin Transportation and Public Works.
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Austin Transportation and Public Works
Fiscal Note
Funding in the amount of $1,592 for the fabrication and installation of the necessary signs is available in the Operating Budget of Austin Transportation and Public Works.
Prior Council Action:
June 5, 2025 - Resolution No. 20250605-085 directing the City Manager to begin the process to rename Plantation Road was approved on an 11-0 vote.
October 10, 2017 - Resolution No. 20171005-031 condemning the display of monuments and memorials of the Confederacy was approved on a 10-1 vote with Council Member Troxclair voting nay.
For More Information:
Richard Mendoza, Director, 512-974-2488; Amica Bose Assistant Director, 512-974-6447; Amir Emamian, Division Manager; 512-974-9319; Gilda Powers, Quality Consultant, 512-974-7092.
Additional Backup Information:
The street name change was initiated by Council Resolution No. 20250605-085 directing initiation of the street name change process for Plantation Road citing previous Resolution No. 20171005-031 and subsequent response memo from Equity Office that designates the renaming of Plantation Road a high priority on a list of assets slated for initial review.
Plantation Road dates from the 1970s and runs through a part of Austin that was once a freedmen settlement known as Kincheonville. Originally settled in the years after the Civil War by the formerly enslaved Thomas and Mary Kincheon, Kincheonville was a farming community of about 300 acres and home to Black, Hispanic, and Anglo residents.
Community engagement was conducted by the offices of City Council Districts 5 and 8 to identify the proposed name. The proposed new name for the s...
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