Renaming of Kings Canyon Road to Cesar Chavez Boulevard in southeast Fresno completed

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A 30-year task to rename Kings Canyon Boulevard successful southeast and southwest Fresno is present complete.

On Friday, the grandson of the precocious civilian rights person Cesar Chavez joined respective metropolis Council members for the unveiling of the past brand-new thoroughfare sign.

This renaming task has been arguable implicit the past year.

The renaming was approved by a bulk of the Fresno City Council successful March of 2023.

Some neighbors assertion they were lone notified astir the renaming aft it was approved. Which led to section businesses and residents filing a lawsuit against the City of Fresno implicit the renaming.

That suit was past denied by a Fresno County Judge astir a twelvemonth aft the support of the renaming.

Brian Leighton, the lawyer representing those opposed to the caller name, argued that those streets are historical and impact escaped speech.

He said changing the sanction takes distant the individuality of the radical who unrecorded and enactment there.