Vietnamese area still unnamed
The City Council has rescinded its decision to call a Vietnamese retail area “Saigon Business District.”
Council members stopped short of renaming it “Little Saigon.” But that name was precisely what hundreds of speakers who showed up Tuesday night wanted.
Instead, the council voted 7 to 4 to set up a process for naming business districts in the future and giving business owners the right to determine the name of the district.
Many in the city’s Vietnamese American population favor the “Little Saigon” moniker because they say it evokes memories of their homeland before the communist takeover.
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