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:''An Ordinance to Change the Names of Certain Streets and Public Ways in the City of Pensacola.''
The ordinance was approved on [[May 10]], [[1906]]. The ordinance was designed to address situations where a single thoroughfare had two or more different names over its length, or where multiple thoroughfares shared the same name. As a result of the ordinance, the names of many streets were changed to their present-day names. Additionally, the change addressed a situation in which multiple streets shared the same names.
==Genesis of the ordinance==
At the City Council meeting held [[March 2]], [[1906]], a communication from Mayor [[Charles Henry Bliss]] to the City Council was read, in which the mayor "called attention to the fact that the streets in the Northern part of the City had three names, one name for the western part, one for the central part and one for the eastern part, and that in several cases there were two different streets having the same name."<ref>Minutes of the Pensacola City Council, March 2, 1906.</ref>
The Council then appointed a special committee comprised of Council members [[A. H. D'Alemberte]], [[W. B. Wright]], and [[J. M. Muldon]], and charged them with resolving the naming conflicts. The committee returned its recommendations on [[March 22]], which were incorporated into an ordinance.<ref>Minutes of the Pensacola City Council, March 28, 1906.</ref>
A further ordinance, changing the names of several other streets, was approved in September 1906.
==Name changes==
The name changes included:
{| class="wikitable"
|}
==Petterson =Pettersen Addition===The ordinance also changed the names of several streets in the [[Petterson Pettersen Addition]] and portions of the [[West King Tract]]. However, only a few of these names have carried through to the present day: [[Davison Street]], [[Cahn Street]], [[Stillman Street]], and [[Water Street]].
The name changes included:
|-
|First Avenue, O Street
|Petterson Pettersen Street
|[[Pace Boulevard]]
|-
|}
===Other public ways===
The ordinance also named several previously-unnamed public ways:
|Railway still extant, but right-of-way is not used as any kind of public thoroughfare
|}
===The September ordinance===
In September, a further ordinance was passed changing the names of several other streets:
{| class="wikitable"
!Previous street name
!New street name
|-
|Unnamed street first north of [[Maura Street]]
|[[Tunis Street]]
|-
|Yonge Street
|[[Leonard Street]]
|-
|Sierra Street
|Stoddart Street<br/><small>(present-day [[Lakeview Avenue]])</small>
|-
|Job Street
|[[Yonge Street]]
|}
The September ordinance also eliminated several street names near Bayou Texar, folding them into the adjacent numbered avenues.
==References==
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