Fort Worth City Council will take a vote next week on whether to change the name of White Settlement Road. Its new name would become Westside Drive — as it cuts through the upcoming Westside Village development.
This is not the first time the name — so-called for white settlers who built homesteads in the 1850s — has been up for a rebranding. In 2005, White Settlement residents voted on a name change in a City Charter, but the turnout was majority voted “no.” Then again in 2019, Council considered changing it out of respect for the Indigenous peoples who lived in the area before the settlement, but the initiative was scrapped in January 2023.
The name change would cover a mile of the road, and Westside Village developers have agreed to cover the ~$26,000 in costs required for this kind of update.
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