Alcaniz Street renaming request withdrawn
Leroy Boyd/Movement for Change has withdrawn their request to rename the remaining portions of Alcaniz Street for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
According to sources, Mr. Boyd pulled City Manager Al Coby aside at the reception following Monday’s installation of the new Pensacola City Council. The two went upstairs to Mr. Coby’s office, where Mr. Boyd withdrew his request.
I’m genuinely surprised by this. The only reason Mr. Boyd would have withdrawn the request, in my mind, is if he knew that he didn’t have the votes and wanted to save face. I knew that he didn’t have the votes, but judging from Mr. Boyd’s comments last October, I thought he was all in and would ride the issue to its death.
I’m glad to see that’s not the case. Hopefully, we can put this issue behind us and move forward to confront some other the serious issues facing our City.
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Exactly. He didn’t have the votes, didn’t have any support from the people affected by the change, and with the King and Queen of Spain coming! there was no way Council was going to vote to throw our history in the trash and lose what remains of historic Alcaniz Street. I’m all for naming a NEW street MLK, but no one needs the disruption or the fear that emergency services wouldn’t find them in the event of a fire or medical emergency because we changed the name of an existing street.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments about the importance of our history and the preservation of it.
Your letter to council is greatly appreciated.
You are a leader.
The thank you is for Derek