New street names at FSU's main campus—
Effective August 6, 2007

Note from Finance and Administration

See map of new street names (.PDF format)
A printed version can be obtained from FSU's Facilities Planning Department.

FSU has been working with the City of Tallahassee and Leon County in their efforts to eliminate duplicate street names within our community. As you are probably aware, the City/County are diligently working towards improving the local emergency response system, which will ensure not only everyone's health and safety in the surrounding area, but also that of our students, faculty, staff and visitors while they are on campus. A critical component of this effort is to "clean up" duplicate street names within the emergency response system.

For example, FSU currently has a Magnolia Way - which is in conflict with the City's Magnolia Drive. When an emergency occurs and someone calls 911, they might only say or know "Magnolia" and not if it is a Way, Street, Drive, Road, etc. Then the operator has to take the extra time to ask for clarification as to exactly where the emergency is taking place.   

After many months of discussion, meetings and hard work on the part of our Facilities Planning staff,  FSU will now have several new street names, elimination of some street names (will now be considered driveways instead), and continuations of a few existing named roadways.  I have attached a map that illustrates these changes. 

To ensure a smooth transition, these changes will take effect on August 6, 2007.  Since there is never a good time to implement such major changes, this date was chosen as the best possible time after consulting with key student/visitor-orientated offices on campus.  New street signage will be installed, the week of August 6 -10, during the break between the summer sessions and the start of the fall back-to-school activities.  Another element of this project is the assignment of actual street addresses to each building on campus as well.  I will forward the list of the street addresses later this week once I receive it.

Unfortunately, the city/county approval process took longer than expected and we are now in "production season" for all of the new student orientation materials. Therefore, I am asking for your immediate assistance in getting this information into the hands of staff who write newsletters, produce maps and brochures, order stationery, business cards, etc. 

Over the next several months, we will be conducting an awareness campaign to inform the entire campus community of these changes.