TKC Told You So: Here's How Kansas City Renames Avenida Cesar Chavez

We still think our initial suggestions were "more than helpful" but now the conversation has "evolved" to include the municipal set and local civic rules . . . Check the quick primer on how the process works: 

“It goes before a street naming committee, and then there’s public notice, there’s community engagement, public testimony, it comes to the city council for approval by way of an ordinance that the city council would then vote on,” Councilman Crispin Rea said.

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