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CITY BEAT . VOL 23 #1127 . PUBLISHED 7/10/02
A Road by Any Other Name
Which local heroes deserve their own stretch of asphalt?
by G.R. Anderson Jr.

excerpt:
On June 29 the Star Tribune published a story rife with acrimony. Minneapolis City Council members Lisa Goodman and Natalie Johnson Lee were battling over Johnson Lee's proposal to have a new street named after Sharon Sayles Belton, the city's first black and first woman mayor. An offshoot of the Heritage Park development (which in turn grew out of the landmark 1992 Hollman racial-discrimination lawsuit), the street will connect Dunwoody Boulevard on the near north side with Seventh Street North downtown.

Johnson Lee's proposal inspired debate around town and generated a lively thread on the Minneapolis Issues Internet forum. Sixth Ward council member Dean Zimmermann may have summarized the argument best when he posted: "I am quite convinced that it is good policy to not name things after people who are still alive." (Consider Kirby Puckett Place for a moment.)

Perhaps, though, Zimmermann is wrong. Given that just three days earlier a committee of St. Paul leaders finally unveiled a list of streets that might be named after Martin Luther King Jr., one might argue that it's never too early to honor our local notables. Here, then, are some suggestions:



Paisley Parkway: Speaking of purple, remember Prince? This four-lane expanse will head west from his hometown of Chanhassen and feature doves, "no profanity" billboards, and absolutely no Top 10 hits from the past decade. As it approaches South Dakota, it will vanish.

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Some people don't wanna drive down "Prince Org Drive" in recent times. Some orgers think it's a bad street of late...

dnaplaya said:

yeah...those psycho fanatix that follow u late at nite...they're the worst.