Word on the Street
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by AaronPedestrians hoping to cross Lime Street on their way to Orange Lane or Cantaloupe Court probably won’t be able to do so anytime soon in Barstow. At a Planning Commission meeting last night, several commissioners raised that concerns that the proposed list of fruit-themed street names wasn’t “desert-y” enough.
The list of ten proposed names for streets for the National Trails Properties development was not well received by commissioners who thought that the tropical sounding names didn’t reflect the local environment.
“I’ve never heard of some of those fruit,” said associate planner Mike Massimini.
‘It sounds like a pack of those fruit candies,” said Planning Commission Chairman Mike Lewis.
Name must be approved by the planning commission and the city currently has a policy of naming streets after local war heroes. There are fears however that this supply of names will be exhausted, as tens of thousands of new homes are being planned in the area over the coming decades.
The list of proposed names:
Sun Valley Ct.
Sun Valley Lane
Sweeten Ct.
Sunburst
Lime
Orange
Sunray
Strawberry
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
