March 20, 2008
Alamo Renames Several Streets

By Dave Maxwell, Staff Writer

All of the numbered streets within the town limits of Alamo were given new names at the March 12 regular meeting of the Alamo Town Board.

The changes comply with the new addressing program, which is also part of the new E911 Emergency Services addressing plan for Lincoln County. These changes will facilitate response crews getting to any location with the least possible delay. The new addressing system will also be recognized by UPS, Fed-Ex, the U.S. Postal Service, etc.

Street names such as lst North, 2nd West, lst South, lst East, etc., were all given new names, but not family names. Streets that already had suitable names were not changed, with the exception of Airport Road. Since there are currently two Airport Roads in the County, according Planning Director Clint Wertz, to avoid duplication Alamo’s Airport Road has been renamed Box Canyon Road.

As chosen by the Alamo Town Board First South, which runs from west U.S. 93 past the middle school, has been renamed Coyote Street. The street that runs in front of the post office has been changed to Purple Sage Street. The side street which is in front of the old Fire Station has changed to Yucca Street. Main and Broadway streets remain the same. The street from the Alamo Power District office west in front of the Assembly of God Church has changed to Cottonwood Street. The street that runs south in front of the Alamo Annex building and on into Yoppsville has changed to Joshua Tree Street. Streets that don’t already have street signs posted will be receiving them.

The County addressing system will issue new numbers to all occupied and unoccupied buildings in Alamo and Hiko. Wertz said the ratio is 1,000 numbers per mile from a fixed point in each town. Therefore, as new developments go in, the addresses will already be there. The new numbers will be announced later and the County will provide address numbers and placards to all existing addressable structures. All new addresses assigned after the initial startup of the system will require an addressing assignment by the County and require a fee of $20. All new land divisions will also require the assignment of both street names and addresses and will require the sub divider to purchase and erect all signs.

A request to change the name of a street, if necessary, will most likely require an agreement among all the residents who live on that street and an appeal to the County Planning Department.

Board Chairman Lonnie Walch said this new addressing would prevent the process from having to be done again sometime in the future and he recognized that there will be inconvenience for people to have to change all their address labels and IDs, “but in the long run, it’ll be done.”