SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio city council member filed a Council Consideration Request (CCR) on Tuesday to kick-start the process of renaming C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard.<\/p>\n
District 5 councilwoman Teri Castillo is initiating a step to distance San Antonio from Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s alleged actions<\/a>, which were made public less than a month ago.<\/p>\n Castillo requested to rename the street back to Durango Boulevard, citing a recent city-curated survey. <\/p>\n \u201cResidents made it crystal clear that it was time for a change, and I am grateful for everyone\u2019s feedback,\u201d Castillo said in a city news release. <\/p>\n Castillo and fellow council members decided on Durango based on results from an online city survey<\/a> and two community listening sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n The city said more than 18,000 people participated in the survey from all districts. The highest participation came from residents in districts 1, 7 and 9.<\/p>\n Sixty-four percent of people in the survey preferred reverting the name back to Durango. Among those who current live along C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard, 79% of respondents also preferred Durango, a city spokesperson said. <\/p>\n \u201cPublic spaces should reflect the community\u2019s values and culture, and honor only upstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to San Antonio,\u201d Castillo said in the release. <\/p>\n Durango Boulevard was a San Antonio staple that dated as far back as the late 1800s, according to UT San Antonio archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n Following a heated city council debate in 2011, Durango Boulevard was renamed to C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard, a street that stretches from the west to the east sides of San Antonio.<\/p>\n According to Castillo\u2019s CCR, residents and businesses located along this street were financially responsible for costs associated with the 2011 name change. <\/p>\n Three weeks ago, city officials told KSAT more than 300 addresses would be affected by a name change and would cost an estimated $200,000<\/a> to complete.<\/p>\n In lieu of the cancelation of what would have been the 30th C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez March for Justice last month<\/a>, Castillo is also requesting for city funds originally budgeted toward the march to be used for \u201ccosts associated\u201d with the \u201cstreet name change, to include street sign replacement costs.\u201d <\/p>\n Council members Sukh Kaur (D1), Phyllis Viagran (D3), Edward Mungia (D4) and Ric Galvan (D6) supported Castillo\u2019s request, according to the news release.<\/p>\n Other cities in the state have jump-started the process of renaming their own streets that bear C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s name, including Houston<\/a> and Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n More related coverage of C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Boulevard on KSAT:<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A San Antonio city council member filed a Council Consideration Request (CCR) on Tuesday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76994,3084,43059,993,82,84,83,18247],"class_list":{"0":"post-249594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-cesar-e-chavez","9":"tag-city-hall","10":"tag-district-5","11":"tag-downtown","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","14":"tag-san-antonio-news","15":"tag-teri-castillo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249594","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=249594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}