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Jun 18, 2008 10:52 pm US/Central
LULAC Offers Alternative Roads For Cesar Chavez
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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More than half of the people who voted in a citywide survey said they want Industrial Blvd. in Dallas to be renamed after Cesar Chavez. Should the city honor their wishes?
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The Cesar Chavez Task Force began its very first meeting on a down note. The task force, which is backed by LULAC, learned that Industrial Blvd. would not be renamed Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Despite receiving 52 percent of the vote in an online and telephone poll, the city council said it would not stand by the voters' choice to rename industrial.
The council's decision outraged LULAC and other Hispanic leaders.
At a news conference Monday, those leaders made one more push, hoping the council would change its mind.
But when the task force met today with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, it acknowledged the inevitable. There would be no backing down.
The task force offered city leaders other streets as possibilities, including Ross Ave., Fort Worth Ave., Young St., Highway 75 (Central Expressway), Live Oak and Singleton Blvd.
The goal is to have the council behind at least one of those roads by August 5, 2008.
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