[Talk-us-massachusetts] Need Help with Street Name Conflicts

[Jim Snyder-Grant]

Oops. meant the first link:
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/03/geography-apostrophe.html
Didn't see anything on the second link.
In our town, when developers propose street names, it becomes part of the
permitting process. Various departments weigh in. The only one that usually
says something is the Fire Department, who get concerned if the name sounds
too much like an existing street.  The engineering or planning departments
sometimes have stuff to say about the proposed numbering of houses. We do
have streets with punctuation.


On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 7:52 AM Jim Snyder-Grant <jim.snyder.grant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The second link makes clear that street names are the purview of each
> town, so there won't be a general rule. It also has more details on the 'no
> apostrophes in US recognized place names' guideline, including some of the
> lobbied-for exceptions such as Martha's Vineyard.  Related story: Acton
> officials recently went through the process of getting an unnamed brook to
> have the name Mary's Brook, except that the USGS folks said nope, gotta
> lose the apostrophe, so now we have Marys Brook (now in OSM as well). If we
> had known that lobbying was possible, maybe we could have kept the
> apostrophe, but I'll bet we don't have the same level of clout as Martha's
> Vineyard.
>
> Jim Snyder-Grant
> 18 Half Moon Hill
> Acton MA 01720
> 508 572-2985
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 9:29 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
>> "Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
>> <talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:
>>
>> > Well its just a long term trend I have noticed over the years that
>> > most street signs that used to have periods and apostrophes now have
>> > them removed. But you can still find a few that still have them. I was
>> > just wondering if it was an official state policy of
>> > standardization. One example I can cite is in Braintree, the street
>> > sign says B.V. French St but the assessors database has B V French
>> > St. If it is an official policy it might speed up resolving some of
>> > these name conflicts.
>>
>> If you are local I would be inclined to visit the town clerk, or the
>> highway department head, and ask about the change and the law.  It might
>> be that name with punctuation is official and the sign vendor won't make
>> it that way.
>>
>> I looked at MGL and was unable to find anything.  But I didn't find the
>> requirement to have house numbers posted for the fire department, so I
>> don't think my negative search counts for much.
>>
>> The second link seems promising, if you read everything that's referenced.
>>
>> https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/03/geography-apostrophe.html
>>
>> https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-law-about-roads-and-streets#massachusetts-laws-
>>
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