LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2021
RESOLUTION: R-21-121
PURPOSE: Changing the name of Veterans Drive to Armory Drive, and
changing the name of the Broad Street Parkway to Veterans
Parkway
ENDORSER(S): Mayor Jim Donchess
Alderman June M. Caron
Alderman Thomas Lopez
COMMITTEE . ;
ASSIGNMENT: Committee on Infrastructure
FISCAL NOTE: Materials, Labor and Vehicle Overhead: $440 for traffic
related work. There are also wayfinding signs that reference
the Broad Street Parkway that would need to be changed.
ANALYSIS
This resolution changes the name of Veterans Drive to Armory Drive, and the Broad Street
Parkway to Veterans Parkway.
Pursuant to NH RSA 231:133, the city’s governing body (board of aldermen) may change the
name of any street at any time when in its judgment there is occasion for so doing. No street
name shall be selected which is already in use, or which is confusingly similar to any such
existing name, or which otherwise might delay the locating of any address in an emergency.
Such name shall be placed in at least two (2) conspicuous places on said street. Whenever a
name change is made, the city clerk shall make a record of the name change and shall forward a
copy of such record to the commissioner of transportation.
NRO Chapter 280 “STREET AND BUILDING IDENTIFICATION” provides that the overall
responsibility for the enforcement of that article shall be that of the fire department.
A companion ordinance (O-21-056 “Amendments to the ordinances relative to street name
changes of Veterans Drive and the Broad Street Parkway’) is being submitted at the same time
as this resolution. If this renaming resolution passes, then the companion ordinance is necessary
to change all the references in the NROs from the old street names to the new ones.
Approved as to form: Office of Corporation Counsel
By: Vpn Ae, (Mister
Date: % Moat WD 34
