St. John's approves new street naming policy

The City of St. John's has approved a new street naming policy.

It was determined that naming streets after people carries a number of risks, including problematic legacies, political polarization, and disparity in representation/ or cultural marginalization.

To reduce these risks, the street naming policy has been updated to remove the option to submit people's names. Going forward, "The City shall not approve any submission requesting a street be named after a person, regardless of whether that person is living or deceased."

Submissions requesting a street be named after a person that were received prior to approval of the revisions will be processed as per the previous policy.