Place or Street Naming Request

Place or Street Naming Request

Please use the request form to make a naming request and submit the required application materials.

Prior to submitting a naming request to the City of Tacoma, please review the City’s Policy on Place Names and Name Changes found here to ensure your application is complete and aligned with the City’s guidelines.

The questions to the right with red asterisks must be answered for your application for the naming proposal to be considered. For optional question please give as much information as is relevant.

1. Requester Name/Point of Contact*

2. Organization (if applicable)

3. Contact Email*

4. Contact Phone Number*

5. What type of property are you requesting to name?*

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6. What type of naming request is this?*

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7. Is the name being requested in a language other than English?*

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7a. If so, What language?

8. Name Requested

Maps and Pictures illustrating the area affected by the proposal*

Please also include any letters of support, petitions, or other relevant documents.

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9. Would any existing place, right of way or facility names be affected?*

10. Are there any common usage names or nicknames for the area or its elements, including topographical landmarks?*

11. Please provide a statement on the criteria in this policy that apply to the request, and how the proposal meets these criteria.*

You should speak to the following criteria and how this request meets them. This can also be seen under Section 4 of the Place Naming Policy in more detail:

Context, geographical location and natural or geological features
Historical significance
Civil service of the individual
Equity, inclusion, and reconciliation
Contributions

12. Please provide a summary of any public outreach conducted to date, including to neighborhood associations, Neighborhood Councils, Business District Associations, and commercial property owners’ groups*

13. Please describe all planned actions for interpretive measures if the naming proposal is approved, particularly including any that would require additional permitting.*

This would likely include signs and/or plaques with the new name or other installations.

Additionally for roadway and non-roadway rights of way naming, including honorary naming, but excluding Puyallup Tribal Council or designee initiated honorary naming within the 1873 survey area of the Puyallup Reservation.

14. A signed petition in support of the renaming must be solicited and submitted by the proponents of the renaming prior to consideration by the City of at least two-thirds of property owners abutting the linear frontage of the affected roadway and fifty percent of those property owners within five hundred feet of the proposal.*

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