Angela is against renaming Ross, but what about that Industrial option

City Council member Angela Hunt has come down hard against renaming Ross Avenue after Cesar Chavez, but after the City Plan Commision's decision yesterday involving Ross, that renaming didn't seem likely to happen anyway.

But I found her most recent blog entry more interesting for what she didn't say about Industrial than what she did say about Ross. I know I'm reading between the lines here, but my instinct tells me she might vote to rename Industrial after the farm labor leader. At least, she may be the fourth vote need to block the proposal to change the name of Industrial to the bland and inappropriate Riverfront Blvd., which the majority of the City Council wants to do. She blames the Council's Trinity River Corridor Committee, a group she should have been appointed to but was not because of her opposition to a toll road in the park, for the entire mess. Here's exactly what she had to say on this subject:

"This debate has also become unnecessarily divisive, when it didn't need to be. The blame for this falls squarely on the shoulders of the city. First of all, if the intent was to give Industrial Boulevard a "riveresque" moniker, the Trinity River Committee should have stated upfront that only such names would be considered. That would have eliminated this whole debate about Industrial being named after a person. Second, the Trinity River Committee made a mistake by approving (on Dwaine Caraway's motion, seconded by Elba Garcia) a public survey about proposed names for Industrial Boulevard (Mr. Rasansky voted against doing so, and I'm not on that committee). If the committee wasn't going to respect the outcome of the survey, or make it a legitimate vote with real ballots, then it shouldn't have taken a vote at all. There were already signs at that meeting that this was becoming a divisive issue, and at that point, the city should have nixed the public poll. "

What I infer from this is Ms. Hunt is saying "Ok, committe, you got yourself into this mess, you now need to live with the mess you got into." And if this is indeed what she is saying, then I absolutely agree -- 100 percent.