Private right-of-ways with four or less civic addresses shall not be assigned a name.

Private right-of-ways with more than four civic addresses shall be named and the properties therein will be re-addressed per the “Civic Addressing By-law”.

All assumed & maintained municipal highways shall be assigned a name, regardless of the number of civic addresses on the highway.

Where a highway crosses into another municipality the highway will only be named or renamed where the other municipality officially accepts the name through By-law.

Council may name or rename, or, refuse to name or rename highways, where Council determines it is in the best interest of the public to do so.

For the purpose of this policy and procedure, each highway name shall be composed of two parts, a NAME and a SUFFIX.

Council may select or deny any suggested highway name(s) presented.

No proposed new name, or name change, shall conflict with, or, be very similar to, an existing official highway name in Central Frontenac.

No proposed new name, or name change, shall conflict with or be very similar to an existing official highway name, where the two highways are within five kilometres (5 Km) of each other, regardless of political boundaries.

The total length of the highway name shall not exceed 27 characters (including punctuation and spaces), when spelled out in full.

All highways shall have a SUFFIX that identifies them as a highway.

The SUFFIX shall be assigned in accordance with the highways classification and route as per Appendix A, only SUFFIXes listed in Appendix A will be allowed.

NAMEs containing misspellings will not be allowed.

Overly complicated, or cryptic, NAMEs will not be allowed.

When a highway is re-named, costs to replace township signage shall be borne by the applicant(s).  Other costs shall be borne by the parties incurring such costs (i.e. changes to personalized stationary, non-municipal signage, business expenses to change addresses, etc.).

Fees charged to change official MTO signage on Provincial Highways (Hwy 7) shall be borne by the applicant(s), where required by MTO.

The Township reserves the right to refuse renaming where costs to the Township would be prohibitive.

After a change has been approved by Council and passed through by-law, it shall be the responsibility of the property owners on the highway to notify any persons or agencies of the name change, where it is in their interest to do so, with exception of the following:  The 9-1-1 Coordinator shall notify Bell Canada’s 9-1-1 Group, the CERB agency for Central Frontenac, and a division of each of police, fire, and ambulance services for Central Frontenac, of the name change within 15 days of the council meeting where the name change was approved.  The 9-1-1 Coordinator shall mail property owners with frontage on the named or re-named road notice of the change within 30 days of the council meeting where the name change was approved.  All others with an interest in the highway will be deemed notified through the Council Minutes.

Those putting forward new highway names, or changes to existing highway names (henceforth “Applicants”), shall:

Applicants shall contact the 9-1-1 Coordinator for the Township with a list of desired names (a list of ten (10) names is recommended).  The 9-1-1 Coordinator shall review the list of names and determine which names meet the criteria listed in the Name Selection section of this Policy & Procedure.  If at least five (5) names are determined which meet the Name Selection criteria, the applicant will be provided with a preliminary report form listing those names.  A preliminary report form is required prior to submission to Council. 

Once a preliminary report form has been obtained, the applicant must contact, at their own expense, each of the property owner(s) with civic addresses on the highway (or their representatives), and obtain their support for the name changes by having them affix their signature to a petition.

The petition shall include:

• The reason for the name change
• The preliminary report form (with names listed in order of preference in the appropriate section)
• This document (so that ratepayers may be aware of the policies of the Township)

Once the above procedure has been completed the applicant may submit the request to Council through the Township Clerk.  Applicants are reminded that Council is under no obligation to approve a change or name a highway.

This list of suffixes is per By-law 2002-125, where differences exist the By-law shall take precedence:

* Any municipally owned and maintained highway may use the “Road” suffix.

* Any privately owned highway may use the “Lane”, or “Way” suffix.