Cesar Chavez Boulevard: When "no" really means "yes"
by Sue Fischer, guest opinion
Tuesday July 14, 2009, 11:30 AM
Residents and business along 39th Avenue feel violated by the City Council's decision to change, against our will, the name of the street where we live and work.
In some cases our ties to the street go back many, many years. We said "no," but because we needed better reasons to say "no," we apparently really meant "yes." We fought back, but not hard enough. The only resistance we were credited with was resistance to change. Besides, we were told, we deserve what we got because we're all racists by association, according to city leaders, because of a few ugly opposition letters.
For those of us who live, work and pay property taxes on 39th Avenue, it's not only about the expense and inconvenience of an involuntary and unwelcomed address change. It's about losing a sense of identity, losing the sense of feeling in control -- however tenuous or illusory -- over the personal space provided by our homes (which include our addresses) and businesses in a turbulent economic environment.
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We'll get a ton of recall signatures along this avenue ha ha.
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