A. Official street names for all streets and highways within the City shall be those recommended by the Planning Commission, and approved and adopted by the City Council. All names presently assigned to streets prior to July 18, 1969 are accepted as the official names of said streets.

B. In the event that street names are changed in the future, said name changes shall be undertaken upon the recommendation of the Planning Commission to the City Council. There shall be no requirement that a public hearing be held by either the Planning Commission or the City Council in considering the proposed name changes; provided, however, that either of said bodies may conduct a public hearing, giving a written notice by mail to all parties to be affected by said name change, i.e., the residents of the subject street, or in the event that a large number of residents are affected, by posting of notices along the street and by subject publication of said notice at least 10 days prior to the date of the hearing.

C. It shall be the duty of the City Council, in designating street names and in accepting recommendations for changes of street names, to provide names which do not cause confusion and uncertainty to police, fire or other emergency vehicles by virtue of similarity of spelling or sound of said street names, and to act in changing such names so as to eliminate such confusion and uncertainty. (Ord. 1205 § 2, 1969; prior code § 27.103).