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The Livermore City Council unanimously agreed to rename an approximately one-mile portion of East Vallecitos Road to East Vineyard Avenue to improve emergency and delivery services to residents living on the street.
The new name was chosen as a logical continuation from East Vineyard Avenue, according to Jennifer Ackerman, associate planner for the city of Livermore. The council voted on the name change during its Jan. 13 regular meeting.
As a result of the council’s decision, four residences will undergo an address change. Though the road will remain privately maintained.
“Residents have noted that emergency and routine delivery services have difficulty finding these homes along this road,” Ackerman said. “The proposed change will help improve this situation.”
The item came before council following the Livermore Planning Commission’s unanimous support of the renaming on Nov. 19, 2024.
Afterward, city staff removed one of the five residences recommended by the commission as impacted by the name change because that one parcel does not have access to the road being changed to East Vineyard Avenue, according to the city staff report.
The new street name and address changes will take effect once the city notifies entities including USPS, UPS, Zone 7 Water Agency, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Alameda County Fire Department, Registrar of Voters, Comcast, PGE, AT&T, Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District and Livermore Sanitation, according to staff. The city intends to send these notifications Jan. 24.
Following the city’s contact of outside agencies, property owners must notify their business and personal contacts that their address has changed.
Outside of the city limits in Alameda County’s jurisdiction, two properties along the road were already identified with East Vineyard addresses.
There were no public comments regarding the renaming of the street during Monday’s meeting, but all letters to the council — including one from Kurtis Dickey, battalion chief of training at the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department — expressed support for the renaming.
Councilmember Steven Dunbar supported the proposal and noted his previous support of it as a former commissioner.
As part of the consent calendar — which includes items considered routine in nature and typically passed by a single vote — Livermore Valley Arts CFO Reanna Bradford reported to the council the organization’s most productive fiscal year since opening the Bankhead in 2007 after Councilmember Ben Barrientos requested more information about the organization’s annual report for fiscal year 2023-24.
“It’s not just about the people in the seats, the arts create a ripple-effect that touches everyone in the city,” Bradford said.
During the 2023-24 fiscal year, 88,000 people attended programs by LVA including the Bankhead Presents series, free community events, art camps, workshops and the Uncle Credit Union Art Gallery at the Bankhead, Bradford said. That equals a 22% increase in attendance over the last fiscal year.
LVA also earned a record-setting $2.2 million over the year with an operating reserve of $1.2 million.
“I certainly appreciate the work that you continue to do to enrich the community. So thank you very much,” Marchand said.
Also as part of its consent calendar, the council agreed to increase its contract agreement with Pangea Environmental Services, Inc. for additional environmental support services for remediation activities associated with Livermore Village Remediation Project from a maximum of $1,165,000 to $1,716,500, extending the term to Dec. 31, 2028.
The goal of the project is to clean up after historical activities that contaminated surface soils with heavy metals and hydrocarbons and contaminated deeper soil, soil vapor, and groundwater with organic chemicals, according to the report.
The work is concentrated in the area bounded by First Street, L Street, Railroad Avenue and Livermore Avenue.
It might not hurt to add Google and Bing Maps of the change. It took many years for them to correctly acknowledge that Touriga Place wasn’t the same as Touriga Court. It used to drive delivery drivers mad!