Kyle City Council To Have Ordinance Brought Back To Rename W. Ranch To Market Road 150

KYLE, TEXAS – During their Tuesday, Feb. 2 meeting, the Kyle City Council gave direction to have an ordinance brought back before them to rename W. Ranch to Market Road 150 to Veterans Drive.

Veterans Drive was the recommendation presented to Council by the W. Ranch to Market Road 150 Renaming Committee. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Albert Taylor Street — Taylor was one of several African American businessmen who owned a cleaning and press shop in downtown Kyle in the 1900s — were also recommended to City Council for future street names.  

The W. Ranch to Market Road 150 Renaming Committee held a total of seven meetings between Oct. 21, 2020, and Jan. 6, 2021, before whittling down their selection to present to City Council.  

As part of the committee’s process for recommending new names, they explored several avenues for renaming the stretch of road including naming it after the newly-selected Hays High School Mascot.

But after several discussions, the school’s location in Mountain City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) as well as Farm to Market Road 2770 already being designated as Jack C. Hays Trail — the school’s namesake — led the committee to go in other directions.  

The committee also considered keeping the original state designation of W. Ranch to Market Road 150, but the County and Texas Department of Transportation are set to start construction in the next two years on an extension of W. Ranch to Market Road 150 that will convert the existing W. Ranch to Market Road 150 to Business W. Ranch to Market Road 150.  

Background on W. Ranch to Market Road 150 Renaming Committee  

The Kyle City Council originally approved an ordinance to rename the entire length of Rebel Drive to Fajita Drive at its Aug. 18, 2020 meeting.

After listening to members of the community express discomfort with the renaming, the City Council decided to hold a public hearing and take action to reconsider the item to allow more input from the community at its Aug. 25, 2020 meeting.      

After holding a public hearing during the City Council’s Aug. 25, 2020 meeting, they voted six to one to rescind the previous vote to rename Rebel Drive to Fajita Drive at their Aug. 18, 2020 meeting. Council then voted unanimously on a first reading to remove Rebel Drive as the street name.  

During their Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020 meeting, Kyle City Council approved, upon second reading, the removal of the street name Rebel Drive — officially reverting the road back to its state-assigned designation as W. Ranch to Market Road 150, until a new name was chosen — and approved a resolution creating an Ad Hoc Committee to rename West Ranch to Market Road 150.  

The Council selected 15 members to participate on the Ad Hoc Renaming Committee including: Alysha Buono, Anthony Davis, David Glicker, Elizabeth Godfrey-Weidig, Fred Guerra, Gilbert Jordan, Humberto Aguin, Karen Shields, Lino Montonya, Nick Landis, Priscilla Harrell, Ronald Guentzel, Summer Mann, Vanessa Westbrook and Wilma Javey.