Eugene Public Works employees Charles Lange (left) and Jeff Koziol replace the signposts on Centennial Boulevard to accommodate the new Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard signs.
With the renaming of Centennial Boulevard to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, many residents living along the thoroughfare found themselves with new addresses.
The city of Eugene and Chase Village apartment management decided to make Kinsrow Avenue the new address for all Chase Village apartments, a ruling aimed at coinciding with the July 11 renaming of Centennial Boulevard.
Many of the apartments within Chase Village had Centennial Boulevard addresses when they were first built, City Permit Support Supervisor Debbie Wells said. At that time, Chase Village apartments located next to Centennial Boulevard were supposed to be given odd numbers; however, those apartments were incorrectly assigned even-numbered addresses.
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Also, both the Eugene Police Department and Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department have requested that Chase Village use a single street for its addresses, Duplant said.
“The other day the fire department responded to a call, and they said they took quite a while trying to find the apartment because of the two different street addresses within Chase Village,” Duplant told the Emerald earlier this summer.
To correct the mistake, Chase Village management and the city agreed to change the addresses from Centennial Boulevard to Kinsrow Avenue. One-third of Chase Village apartments were changed, according to the apartments’ management.
Chase Village Leasing Consultant Ariel Duplant said that 206 of the 536 apartments were affected by the address change.
Residents had to fill out a change-of-address form for the U.S. Postal Service.
Freshman business major Tabatha Pearigen said the change-of-address notification came at a bad time for her because she was still in the process of moving in to the apartment.
“It’s been a bit of a hassle because I had to change my billing address with the University in order to get my tuition bill,” Pearigen said. “At least my roommate’s magazine subscriptions were done with, so we didn’t need to worry about fixing that.”
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