Layton, Utah History

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

3 Layton Street names that never came to be: Call Street, Allen Avenue and Freedom Boulevard

HOW about Call Street, Allen Avenue and Freedom Boulevard in Layton City?
These were all possibilities for road names that were turned down over the decades by Layton City Officials.

-Call Street could have been the official name for 2200 West on the City's West side. The Call Family had a strong presence in the area, going back to pioneer times, but for some reason this name never came to be.

       This where the western section of Gordon Avenue ends, on the west side of I-15.


-Allen Avenue: In the early 1990s, the Layton City Council recognized that ever since I-15 disconnected the continuity of Gordon Avenue in the mid-1960s, that the road's west and east section were confusing. In fact, you have to go on a section of Main Street and Hill Field Road both to go from the western section of Gordon Avenue in order to continue on the eastern section. Since a City Councilman at the time, Brent Allen, had previously lived on the western section of Gordon Avenue for many decades (and his family had long had a presence there ever earlier), a proposal was made to rename the western section of Gordon Avenue to Allen Avenue. Mr. Allen, however, did not favor the idea and it was never officially voted on, though it was considered.





-Freedom Boulevard: During the summer of 1991, the Layton City Council had considered renaming Hill Field Road (State Highway 232) Freedom Boulevard. This was to honor local military personnel and also to clear up confusion, since Highway 193 (on the south side of Hill Air Force Base) is sometimes referred to as Hill Field Road too.
The Utah Department of Transportation was so certain that Layton City was renaming Hill Field Road, that it produced new name signs and actually put some of them in place in July of 1991. 
When a vote by the City Council was actually taken on the renaming in mid-July of 1991, the vote was 4-1 against the action.
The signs were removed and some Council Members of that era actually received a Freedom Boulevard sign as a "what if," keepsake. (The City still has a number of the Freedom signs stored in a closed in City Hall, as of 2019.)

-NOTE that several other newspapers got the story on the Freedom Boulevard name wrong. The Layton City Council didn't vote to approve the name change and then later vote again to revert the name back to the former title, as some newspapers incorrectly reported.
-ALSO, note that Hill Field Road was originally named "Easy Street," before Hill AFB came alone. Finally, U-193, is also at times referred to as Hill Field Road too, as it runs along the south side of the base. It is actually the first version of Hill Field Road.

(Source: Deseret News of Nov. 1, 1991.)







Posted by Lynn Arave at 3:45 PM
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