Broward County's Rules For Naming Streets?

Broward Country, FL, deals with the tricky issues of naming streets after people. Naming streets after a politician create additional complications.

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August 21, 2001, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Broward County governments have had varying degrees of success with this issue. In 1993, the Broward School Board renamed Everglades Middle School, near Fort Lauderdale, to honor retiring deputy school superintendent William Dandy. Three years later, Dandy pleaded guilty to a hit-and-run that killed a 37-year-old woman. In Miami-Dade County, commissioners passed a law during the '90's prohibiting naming public streets for living people. The rule was amended to enable the county to name part of Sunset Drive after Marjory Stoneman Douglas, renowned for work on behalf of the Everglades. "That's been the only exception," Commissioner Javier Souto said. "We knew she was a hundred and some years old. We knew she wasn't going to do something wrong at that age."

Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg

FULL STORY: Wanted, dead or alive: rules for naming streets

Monday, August 20, 2001 in The Miami Herald

Government / Politics Florida

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