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38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 1 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 STREET NAMING & HOUSE NUMBERING REQUIREMENTS APPLICATION FOR STREET NAME APPROVAL • Submit a letter of request for street name approval. Include Developer’s and Engineer’s names, addresses and phone numbers. • Submit one primary name and two alternates per street. Indicating the alpha street designation per the Tentative Tract Map for each street being named. (See Street Name guidelines) • Submit an approved Tentative Tract Map. • Email all files to [EMAIL REDACTED] APPLICATION FOR HOUSE NUMBERING • Submit a letter of request for house numbers. Addresses will be assigned after City Council approval and Los Angeles County recordation of Tract Map. • Submit Addressing Fee of $5 + $35.00/lot plus 5% GIS Fee. • Submit a copy of the AutoCAD base map file and plot plan of the tract with the Engineer and Owner’s names and phone numbers. Driveway approaches shall be shown on the plot plan for all residential lots. Any lot designated to serve, as a drainage facility shall be labeled as such to [EMAIL REDACTED] ---PAGE BREAK--- 38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 2 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 STREET NAME GUIDELINES Historic names and/or names referring to applicable geographic features shall be used wherever practical. Names of existing major and secondary streets, using Antelope Valley Plan (item 13), shall be used on new streets, which are continuations of, or in alignment with such existing streets, regardless of breaks or obstructions. Exceptions to be determined on a case-by-case basis. The names for new major or secondary streets that are in alignment with or a continuation of existing major or secondary streets, which do not use the Antelope Valley Plan (item 15), will be determined on a case-by-case basis. All other new streets, whether using the Antelope Valley Plan (item 13) or not, that are a continuation of existing streets shall use the names of the existing street. If vacant land is between developed property then the new street name will take on the name of the existing street. Streets shall not be named after any commercial organization or in a manner to honor any living person. The use of thoroughfare designations, whether prefixes or suffixes, such as drive, place, walk, via, avenida, etc., shall not be considered as affecting a distinction in the basic name. For guidelines on designations, see Definitions. The use of "Avenue" or "Avenida" as a prefix or suffix shall be used for East and West thoroughfares only. The use of "Street" as a suffix shall be used for North and South thoroughfares only. Cardinal prefixes or suffixes, such as North, South, East, or West shall not be used. A street name shall not contain more than 18-letter characters, including any combinations. of spaces, letters, or punctuation designations in the base portion of the name. The use of compound names shall be discouraged. Duplicated names are not acceptable. Any unnamed street or portion thereof shall be named by the City Engineer. ---PAGE BREAK--- 38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 3 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 Similar sounding street names are to be avoided within the same fire-fighting district to eliminate identification problems when people are reporting street names under stress. The Antelope Valley Street Naming Plan (a special system of alpha/numeric street names) shall be preserved. Deviations may be considered when there is proof the plan cannot be complied with. CLASSIFICATIONS BY RIGHT OF WAY WIDTH (Used For Guidelines Only) 64 Feet and Up Road Highway Parkway Avenue Street Boulevard 58 to 66 Feet Place Court Drive Circle Way Loop Terrace 26 to 50 Feet Alley Walk Trail Loop Lane ---PAGE BREAK--- 38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 4 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 DEFINITIONS STREET NAMES – PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES ALLEY narrow service street for serving rear of lots, less than 30 feet in width. AVENUE A broad public street. A street handsomely laid out with trees. A public way named avenue rather than street to denote its peculiar direction (avenues north and south: street east and west). A public way named for its objectives or after the thing approached. BOULEVARD A broad formally laid out paved public way, 100 feet or more wide, ornamentally illuminated or decorated. CIRCLE A circular junction of streets or highways. A circular street. DRIVE A recreational or scenic way of local extent. A road through a park. HIGHWAY A publicly owned and maintained way with interurban directness and arterial importance through several cities or communities LANE A narrow informal street or passageway LOOP A circumferential way. A street or way that returns into itself PARKWAY A broad public way, divided into drives, bridle paths, walks, and planting strips. A broad formally laid out public way with a planting strip along the center PLACE A short street or court. Also the junction on several highways. ROAD A public way or highway connecting two or more settlements or towns generally bearing the name or names of the settlements connected. STREET A public way forty or more feet wide, used to give pedestrian and vehicular traffic access to the various parcels of land making up a community. A public way with a direction contrary to that of avenues of the community. TERRACE A short hillside street; a street on a terraced hill. ---PAGE BREAK--- 38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 5 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 TRAIL A pedestrian way through mountainous territory. A rough path in wild country. A public way following a historical route. WALK A pedestrian way. WAY A narrow road or highway. A lane. SPANISH-TYPE STREET NAME PREFIXES AVENIDA Similar to Boulevard. CALLE Small Street. CAMINO Small rural road between cities (not inside cities). CARRERA City-type Street or Avenue. PASEO Walk, Stroll, Drive. VIA Same as Avenida. ---PAGE BREAK--- 38250 Sierra Highway · Palmdale, California 93550 · 661/267-5353 · [PHONE REDACTED] fax Page 6 of 6 Revised: 8/2022 ADDENDUM TO STREET NAME POLICY Private Street Naming This only applies to private streets within condominium projects, mobile home parks, and apartment complexes and not to private streets that are designed to public street requirements such as ones through a subdivision Names for private streets (not public right-of-way) are not subject to the same requirements as names for public streets. The only requirements that the names will meet is that they must not be duplicates of existing names and that they will not be used for addressing unless specifically approved by Planning, Building and Safety, Engineering, and the Fire Department. Minimum width requirement for addressing is 30 feet of travel way.