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BAKERSFIELD, CA (KUZZ) — The City of Bakersfield will not go forward with tentative plans to rename a downtown portion of H Street as Cesar Chavez Boulevard.
The move came Wednesday after City Manager Christian Clegg, along with City Attorney Ginny Gennaro, determined it was within their power to end discussion of the proposed change in the wake of a New York Times report released Wednesday which alleges that the late co-founder of the United Farmworkers Union sexually assaulted women and young girls within the United Farm Workers movement including co-founder Dolores Huerta.
KGET-TV reports Cesar Chavez Boulevard would have fronted the Padre Hotel, the Fox Theater and the Dolores Huerta Peace and Justice Cultural Center, which is currently under construction at 21st and H streets.
The television station reports Huerta herself had not publicly endorsed the proposed Chavez Boulevard name change.
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