Manchaca Rd Ridiculous Name Change to Menchaca (Austin, Post: lawsuit, floor)

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by earthisle

So you're in favor of bad spelling. What is this huge cost that you think will be incurred?

Or maybe he is against bad/revisionist history?

To each their own.

[austin-steve]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Or maybe he is against bad/revisionist history?

To each their own.

And I'm against our City Council doing things like this to appease the *feelings* of one solitary, narcissistic individual who has made it his mission to inconvenience every business owner and resident on Manchaca Rd. by imposing an unnecessary address change that is grounded in no actual provable facts, but instead some weak "lore".

I'm so angry about this because it's so offensive and it represents just another straw on the camels back, and proof that our city government is indeed out of control and aimless.

[verybadgnome]

I saw a news report on this and it seemed there were more unknowns than facts. It now seems more of a symbolic gesture to placate a small group and look empathetic for the voters. The Austin Monitor reported that there is no evidence that Captain Jose Menchaca ever visited the area. Moreover, "Manchac" derives from the Choctaw word for "rear entrance" and that group was here before the Texas soldier. Kitchen, the councilmember for this district, was also against the name change.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/storie...come-menchaca/

[eirenecat]

This is total stupidity. Judge Perkins needs to find a new cause--and if he's real worried about correctness for Jose Menchaca, perhaps he should be championing for the street to be renamed to Menchaca's Basque origins, Mentxaca.

[earthisle]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

Or maybe he is against bad/revisionist history?

To each their own.

It's not revisionist history, it's supposed to be named after someone named Menchaca and it was misspelled.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by earthisle

It's not revisionist history, it's supposed to be named after someone named Menchaca and it was misspelled.

There is no documented basis for that statement, that is the problem. If there was, I would not be opposed at all to 'correcting' it; however, this is just the city council being afraid of looking 'politically incorrect'.

[FalconheadWest]

Originally Posted by earthisle

So you're in favor of bad spelling. What is this huge cost that you think will be incurred?

It costs a lot of time to change records for every single property this will effect. For that time, they have to pay the people working. Plus, all the businesses need to update all their legal descriptions on things and their tax filings will then have a different spelling... the time to change everything over is going to be a lot.

[austin-steve]

Originally Posted by FalconheadWest

It costs a lot of time to change records for every single property this will effect. For that time, they have to pay the people working. Plus, all the businesses need to update all their legal descriptions on things and their tax filings will then have a different spelling... the time to change everything over is going to be a lot.

Exactly. And right across the street from an office condo my partner owns at Davis/Manchaca, there is a new office condo development at 8701 Manchaca called "Trio at Manchaca".
https://www.questrealtytexas.com/the-trio-at-manchaca

Normally, developers don't wonder "can we trust that the street name won't change?" In the City of Austin, I guess you do.

[madrone2k]

I am not currently an Austin resident, but I have close ties to the city. I agree with the idea that we should leave be existing street names.

If we were to carry this renaming/correction impulse to a larger extreme, we would need to rename the Colorado River to be "Brazos River". Ever wonder why the Brazos River carries reddish water and the Colorado is more green? After all, "colorado" is used in Spanish as a word for red. I.e., the Brazos should be called the Colorado.

Well .. it was a mistake by an early cartographer who switched the names between El Rio Colorado and El Rio del los Brazos de Dios.

While it's nice to know about such errors, why put an economic burden on people by trying to fix them, only for the temporary psychological gratification of a few people ?

[ScoPro]

How much is it going to cost the Austin taxpayers to physically change all the street signs because of this idiotic renaming?
Just another valid example of why the CoA gets ridiculed for its inane “priorities “.

Brain dead “leadership” never ceases to amaze me, not to mention the electorate that continues to put them in office.