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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 25, 2023 Page 3 brought up and others concurred at some level,that the City might consider making this a two-step process. The first step process could be to determine if fifty percent or greater of the residents in the neighborhood agree to change the name and then there could be a separate clear process for changing the name. He explained this does provide some direction for what part of the naming convention can be. He felt similar to what the City did recently with the park renaming is as a community asset so it should be thoughtful in how the street name is created or changed. That may be too much,but he did appreciate the changes to the first page on the public notice specifying who would get the notification about the name change. Mayor Roe remembered that the Council discussed this as being a two-step process, but it did not appear that way in the minutes, so he was not one hundred percent sure where the Council stood. He thought this was a great time to have further discussion about that. Councilmember Groff wondered what the two-step process would be. Mayor Roe indicated it would start out with a petition from the neighborhood wanting to change the name and the second step would be the input process to develop what the changed name would be. Councilmember Etten indicated that was correct. He reviewed what the petition form would look like with possible changes to it. He thought the people who would be affected by a street name change, the people who lived on the street, should be the primary people on the petition. Mayor Roe thought there would be a process as laid out in the information in the packet. Councilmember Strahan requested elaboration on what Process A would mean. Public Works Director Jesse Freihammer explained in the beginning that was just a suggestion, but the PWET Commission did recommend that it be made a requirement. Their thought was to get the emphasis to the next details, A-F. Staff did not think that most roads in Roseville would qualify based on the County's grid system. The only opportunities,he thought,would be former County roads that are still called county roads but most of the system is on a grid and could not be changed. Councilmember Strahan indicated with that in mind, she wondered if it would be possible to add that into part A in the process. Maybe it could be a flow chart that would show the qualification steps.