Kansas City reflects on removing J.C. Nichols name from fountain, parkway
KC reflect on removing J.C. Nichols from fountain, parkway
and last updated 2021-05-24 23:33:27-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â For nearly one year, the fountain at the eastern entrance of the Country Club Plaza â near Mill Creek Parkway â has not had a name associated with it.
The move was fueled by protest, but talks began with the click of a button.
It s what Chico Sierra aimed to do with his petition in November 2019, calling for the renaming of what was then J.C. Nichols Parkway. Especially with the internet, Sierra said. Start a conversation, it gets bigger and bigger.
After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: our parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.
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The Kansas City Parks and Recreation Board of Directors hopes to vote this spring on a route to rename after Martin Luther King Jr., a street that might be shorter than previously planned.
On Monday, after the second of two public meetings this year, Roosevelt Lyons, Parks and Recreation deputy director of operations, said he expected to be moving forward this year.
Monday s virtual meeting was attended by less than 40 people. Public engagement sessions held in 2020 were also sparsely attended.
But comments reflected what has often been said during the debate on the King route. I travel a lot before the pandemic, Kansas City resident Jerome Walker told attendees. Every city I go to I get tired of people saying, You live in that big city and they don t have a Martin Luther King Boulevard, and he s been dead for over 50 years?
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