Johnson City Commissioners ultimately diverged from the Johnson City Planning Commission’s unanimous recommendation to rename King Street and King Commons Park in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., and instead opted to recommend the Tennessee General Assembly designate University Parkway as the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.
If the memorandum of understanding is approved on Thursday, the preservation group will have approximately until the first meeting in June to either have $500,000 cash in hand or have a guarantor committed.
A years-long effort led by a local NAACP chapter to have a Johnson City street named after civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will culminate Thursday with a public input session.
