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Home My WebLink About02/18/1992, COMM.1. - STREET NAME CHANGE EEnj AGEN MsDnnA �MMI iUpr,,ll'•d.�i'.,r'";IIP'i'lin;''9ii!°';il;'i��l .._ ' A I '('L' SII i.i lililii n i �i 'i it I JAl 1jj! i'Y k 10. ]�/+ JiI is -- --- , ::1 990 Palm Street/Post Office Box 8100 San Luis Obispo. CA 93403-2100 February 10, 1992 COMMUNICATION ITEM TO: City Council FROM: Mayor Waia. �✓ SUBJECT: STREET NAME CHANGE Attached is a letter from Dan and Liz Krieger of the County Historical Society asking Council to initiate a street name change from Brook Street to Eto Street. I understand the process for having a street name changed normally requires Planning Commission review and approval at a public hearing and a fee is required. If the Council initiates a name change, no fee is needed. In order for the Council to consider this, it is being placed as a communication item on the February 18th meeting agenda and I am requesting Council direct staff to agendize this at the next available meeting. RD:ss Attachment c: J. Dunn P. Voges A. Jonas K. Hampian COM M . l - San Luis Obispo County Historical Society I:D1'�� . ► �, '. D . ' P.O. Box 1391 San Luis Obispo, Califomia 93406 6.1 .; The Dallidet Adobe STATE HismFum LANDK.\tx No. 720 HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM • 696 MONTEREY ST. • SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93401 805/543-0638 January 27, 1992 Mayor Ron Dunin and Members of the City Council % John Dunn, City Manager City of San Luis Obispo 955 Morro Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 Dear Mayor and City Councilpersons, On March 22, 1942, a sad event occurred in the city of San Luis Obispo.American citizens of Japanese ancestry were being forcibly and illegally removed from our region under United*States Executive Order 9066. The San Luis Obispo City Council added further insult to this unconstitutional injury. At its February 24, 1942 meeting, the City Council drafted Ordinance number 236 (New Series) for the purpose of "CHANGING TBE OFFICIAL NAME OF ETO STREET." In 'a pique of wartime hysteria, the Council moved that: "The name of that certain street now known as and officially named Eto Street, in the Nippon Tracts according to the official map.of said tract on file in the office of the County Recorder of the County of San Luis Obispo, which street extends for approximately one block Southerly from South Street, is hereby changed, and said street shall hereafter be known, named and designated as Brook Street." The motion passed unanimously.Following a second reading,the resolution was executed on March 22, 1942. Page no.: 1 Comm. 1 - 01 SL=mFinaaurlamuoyz7.199s Page no.: 2 The street had been known as 'Eto Street"since 1931. It was as though the City Council and many of the citizens wished to erase the lives and contributions of the Japanese in San Luis Obispo. The San Luis Obispo County Historical Society respectfully requests that the present Council follow the lead of the Federal Government in making amends. We wish to see the historic and appropriate name restored. We have contacted Rev.Lewis,Pastor of St. Luke's Missionary Baptist Church, Mr. Phil Quaglino and other property owners along Brook Street. They favor the restoration of the 'Eto Street" appellation. Would you place this item on your agenda for the earliest possible consideration.We urge that you redress this most grievous wrong before the fiftieth anniversary of the event. This is above all else an issue of conscience with which all San Luis Obisvans who wish to be fudged on their own merits agree. Very truly, Dan and Liz Krieger Vice Presidents for Programs CoM Ml MEETING AGENDA f tTEM fO MM• I , 11 February 1992 To: San Luis Obispo City Council From: Emmons Blake Subject: Eto Street, name restoration Our Council will be addressing the request of the Historical Association to rhange the name of that short street presently known as Brook Street to its original name of record: Eto Street. It was so known over 60 years ago, not out of any particular civic pride but rather as the geographical location of where the Tameji Eto family lived. That's the way many small town streets are named. Duncan Road, Fuller Road, Fixlini are other exam- ales. And then, fifty years ago next month our President out of fear of the unknown, had Tameji Eto arrested under Executive Order 9066 as a possible threat to national security because, and only because, he had been born in Japan. Shortly after that, in flurry of martial-macho-ism the street name became Brook Street, no public hearings, no posted notices of impending actions . . . just changed! I certainly support the request of the Historical Association. I ask that you restore the name of a significant San Luis Obispo family, hard workers, skilled truck farmers, impressive well-educated children, and good neighbors to their family street; and restore the name without a public hearing, or posted notice of impending actions . . . just restored. You might add a really classy note, by having the restoration effective on March 22, 1992; just fifty years to the day after it was named Brook because it bordered muddy San Luis Creek. Without a lot of Council arm- waving, you might have Ron Dunin, who was born in Poland, educated in Scotland, and is very proud of his United States citizenship, issue an Exp tive Order 32292 welcoming Eto Street back to its rightful title. ince ely, ❑mrifsAdim ❑ FM V cpm S!rCDDDM 2CAO ❑ >na.DR. EmmonsRECEIVED & 'AcAO ❑ I:m caw D' rraw�r 13 FW lit .2- , yG� ,,_ a mwcmc. ❑ Pou mm ElMGMTMMQ ❑ RBC M FEB 1 1 92 ❑ r-RFAor� ❑ LDM A �2'rSir F7LE CI RK SAk LU I�CLEOBISPO,CA San Luis Obispo County(Calif:) TELEGRAMTRIBUNE. Historical Society wants old.-street name -re st®red The county EwWrical Society The Etos, she said, had been-"a. has written a letter to.the San Iasis terribly hard-wor dng faim.flunw, ` Obispo City Council asking the city. and "good neighbors" in the'area. to charge Brook Street back to its foryears ' • 1. historical name,Eto Street :.- "We're confident that all San: The name ad_.the street. was Luis Obispoans who want to be changed,by the.,City Co,unal on judged oa fihea1�wn merits would March �' said Liz 13r ger„ approy*!'og~ _ Mack°t_b,.W � .. V1C@,. Ory:the innal histol j Ithe «J ..... . "the be>ght bf be simply w 'E gmlE9 of m+7"wsaid War hysteria": City. Clerk Pani; Voges 1'6e Mstorical Society wants the Thursday-. the' letter had been: council.to change the name back received: at: L'ity Hall, but. no by._the 50th anniversary of the council member had yet asked her ,change nexrfnonth. ._ . to put the raiame change on a; The block-long, street intersects meeting agenda = with South Street between Hig- Any street name change is vera Street sand Highway 101. It subjecttn''a 'public hearing and was named after the Eto family in considerition by the. Planning l,Krieger sal 193 �; Commission;&e said _.,_ - 'y'. r i•' _z4?N -l"+. C f4_2ate _ _. _ - ....gym•.a__.�eY� ._�-:+o�+ .'.R.�,R"i.,.,_f-. Q` .