{"id":231841,"date":"2026-04-02T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231841\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T13:42:12","slug":"mayor-announces-process-to-rename-cesar-chavez-blvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231841\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Announces Process to Rename Cesar Chavez Blvd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstitle\">Mayor Announces Process to Rename Cesar Chavez Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>April 1, 2026 &#8212; Today, Mayor John Whitmire announced the  City&#8217;s timeline for renaming Cesar Chavez Blvd. to ensure opportunities for  public input following recent revelations about the former leader of the the  United Farmer Workers Union.<\/p>\n<p> The mayor said he is starting the process following input from members of the  community and elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, who spoke  during today&#8217;s City Council meeting. She urged the city to change the street&#8217;s  name in honor of Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmer Workers  Union.<\/p>\n<p>TIMELINE<br \/>Wednesday, April  1: The Planning and Development Department <a href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.gov\/moc\/2026\/cesar-chavez-blvd-renaming.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mails notices  to abutting property owners<\/a> and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>            113 total parcels <\/p>\n<p>                75 parcels are addressed on        side streets<br \/>\n                38 parcels are addressed with        Cesar Chavez Blvd<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday,  April 1: Thursday, May 1: Thirty-day public comment period<br \/>Wednesday,  May 13:Item placed  on City Council agenda for vote with 30-day effective date<br \/>Wednesday,  May 13 &#8211; June 12:<\/p>\n<p>            Houston Public Works       installs new street signs<\/p>\n<p>Property owners and other agencies are notified  of the name change.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"image full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cesar-chavez-blvd-renaming.jpg\" alt=\"Renaming of Cesar Chavez Boulevard\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Announces Process to Rename Cesar Chavez Blvd. April 1, 2026 &#8212; Today, Mayor John Whitmire announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,662],"class_list":{"0":"post-231841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-mayor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}