Make a turn on... Highway revisited:
By Daily Press staff
A small stretch of road leading into Santa Monica could soon be named “Homeless Haven Hill,” “Bum Boulevard,” or “Re-Elect Bush in 2004 Street.”
Regardless of whether or not the monikers are representative of Santa Monica, City Hall will consider each next week anyway.
Residents were asked last year to offer suggestions on what to call the access road to the PCH, located between Palisades Beach Road and Ocean Avenue. Nearly 100 ideas were forwarded — some serious, others not so much.
Among the submissions: A pair for “Bloom Way,” in honor of current mayor Richard Bloom; five for “647(f)” — the California penal code violation for drunk in public, honoring the city’s homeless population; “Pothole Place” and “Liberal Lane” — referring to the city’s political leanings.
The road was once called State Route 187. City Hall asked residents in December and January to submit their entries through an online poll promoted through the Internet and the city’s television show, “Santa Monica Update.”
City staff plan to present the list to the City Council for consideration next Tuesday. The council can either direct staff to use one of the suggested names, one of its own or narrow the list further and conduct an online poll.
The one-block street, which currently contains no addresses, could be named to honor someone in the community or a shared community value.
The following is a list of suggestions:
“Crespi,” after the man who named the city
Jesse Jackson Boulevard
John Jalili Way
647(f), in honor of all the homeless, (five submittals)
Judge Leventen Way
Karl Marx Way
9/11 Way
Lands End
Acacia Road
Liberal Lane
Arcadia Road
Little Short Street Near the Pier
Marathon Path (two suggestions)
Avenida Carrillo
Mariners Avenue of the Pacific
Mel Gibson & Danny Glover Street
Bad Paving Street
Rough Road
Memory Lane
Pothole Place, Roller Coaster Ride
Mermaid Drive
Blanch Carter Way
Mira Aqua Way
Bloom Way (two submittals)
Monica Avenue /Monica Street, after the patron saint “Santa,” which means “Saint Monica.”
Bluff Drive
Breeze Street
Bum Boulevard
Moomat Ahiko Way (”Breath of the Ocean” in Chumash) (two suggestions)
Chris Volaski Street
Clearwater Parkway
Moonlight Drive
Coastal Drive
Ocean Front Incline
Communist Way
Ocean Incline
Daylight Drive
Ocean View Drive
Dennis Rodman Way
Ocean Way
Diebenkorn Way
Oceanview Road
Dolphin Way
Ola Way
Entrada De Santa Monica, which means entrance of Santa Monica
Opal Road (Ocean-Palisades-Road)
Pacific Gateway Avenue
Essie Tucker Lane
Pacific Pass
Frank Gehry Drive
Pacific View Way
Freedom Way
Palisade Incline Drive
Grand Boulevard
PCH-Ocean Connector
Hasta La Vista Boulevard, a reference to the new governor.
Pere Street
Pier View Road
Heal the Bay Way
Playa del Sol
Heal the Bay Way
Pleasent View Drive
Heaven’s way
Ponte di mare
Homeless Haven Hill
Re-Elect Bush in 2004 Street
Horizon
Renewal Ridge Road
Humpity Bumpity Street
Road Street
Humpity Dumpity Drive
Runoff Road
S.M.U.R.F. Street
Sandy Lane
Seagull Street
Seahorse Way
Seascape Road
Seaview Terrace
Shangri La Drive
SMURF Lane (Santa Monica Urban Runoff Facility)
Smurf Turf Highway
Socialist Agenda Drive
Starfish Road
Sunny Side Street
Sunnyside Street
Sunshine Lane
Surf’s Up Road
Sustainable Way
Thomas McCarthy Way (former many-term mayor)
Tide Drive
Trives Ocean Trail (Former Mayor Nathaniel Trives)
Upper Bluff Road
Via del Mar
Via Pacifica
View Boulevard
Wave Rider
What Street
Windemere Way
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 5, 2004. Read the original PDF.