A stretch of Southern Boulevard in Palm Seaside County was renamed “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard” on Google Maps final week — even earlier than native officers have forged a vote on the proposed honorary designation.
The Palm Seaside County Board of County Commissioners is scheduled to contemplate the merchandise — Consent Agenda 3A-2 — throughout its July 8 assembly. If accepted, the decision would authorize the Florida Division of Transportation (FDOT) to put in ceremonial signage alongside the portion of Southern Boulevard between Kirk Highway and South Ocean Boulevard, together with the realm bordering President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property.
The measure is a part of a broader effort underneath Florida House Bill 987, which grants honorary names to dozens of roads and transportation amenities throughout the state. Below the proposal, two units of indicators could be put in in Palm Seaside County: one recognizing “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard,” and the opposite designating a part of the 18000 block of Southern Boulevard as “PBSO Motorman Freeway” in honor of three fallen Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s deputies — Corporal Luis Páez, Deputy Dan Diaz, and Deputy Ralph “Butch” Waller.
FDOT crews are already finalizing the signal designs and plan to have them put in by September if the fee provides its approval. The signage could be ceremonial solely, which means official addresses and emergency response techniques will proceed to make use of “Southern Boulevard.”
County employees will accumulate public suggestions following set up, and FDOT will conduct a remaining inspection.
HB 987 contains quite a few different honorary designations all through Florida, together with “Celia Cruz Manner” and “Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart Memorial Freeway” in Miami-Dade County, “Jose Wejebe Bridge” in Monroe County, and the “Heroes Memorial Overpass” in Bradford County. It additionally revises the size of the “Deputy William Gentry, Jr. Memorial Freeway” in Highlands County.
