The term “city service address” shall refer to the house number and street name assigned to a property by the City Manager or a designee within the corporate limits of the city or within its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(Ordinance CO11-20-01-09-H1 adopted 1/9/20)
(a) 
Assigned city service addresses must be permanently affixed to all structures in such a position as to be plainly visible and legible from the street, road or access point of the property indicated in the city service address. To the extent that the city service address includes a street name, the street name is not required to be permanently affixed, so long as the house number is plainly visible and legible from that street. A building number contained in a city service address must be plainly visible and legible from any common entrance into the property or, in the event that multiple buildings are not visible from a common entrance, a building directory shall be erected so as to be visible from any common entrance.
(b) 
Those structures sited in such a manner or distance from the street, road, or access point of the property thereby rendering the affixed assigned city service address invisible and/or illegible from the street, road, or access point on the property will not be required to comply with subsection (a) above. In lieu of the affixation to the structure, a monument or sign of appropriate size and tasteful construction will be placed on the property displaying the assigned city service address in a visible and legible manner.
(c) 
During construction of any structure, the city service address must be posted on a sign in such a position as to be plainly visible and legible from the street indicated in the city service address.
(Ordinance CO42-07-07-12-3I adopted 7/12/07)
(a) 
New streets in subdivisions shall be named so as to provide continuity of the name with existing streets and so as to prevent conflict with identical or similar names in other parts of the city, the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, or other contiguous jurisdictions. The Director of Development Services may consider requests to assign street names to private drives within properties zoned Mixed Use (MU), Planned Development (PD), and/or Planning Area (PA) if it is determined that naming the private drives will be in the best interest of public safety. A proposed new street name will be considered in conflict if:
(1) 
It duplicates a street name already in use within the city’s jurisdiction without being a continuation of that street;
(2) 
It duplicates the starting word of a street name already in use by three (3) or more existing streets;
(3) 
It implies an offshoot of an existing street without attachment to that street, such as cul-de-sac with the same name as another street, but not located off that street; or
(4) 
It extends an existing street from a neighboring jurisdiction into Cedar Park’s jurisdiction without continuing the street name.
(b) 
Existing street names which are currently in use and required to be changed due to a realignment of the street, new street dedication, vacation or incorporation into a new roadway or arterial, may be changed at the discretion of the City Council upon a recommendation by city staff and submission of a formal request as outlined in section 12.21.004 of this article. After a street realignment or vacation, if any existing city service addresses require renumbering, each lot will be assigned a new city service address as outlined in subsection (e).
(c) 
A “legal lot” shall be described as an entire lot in approved, recorded subdivision.
(d) 
A “legal tract” shall be described as a parcel of land not created in that configuration by a subdivision plat, but established prior to the effective date hereof and remaining unchanged through current ownership.
(e) 
Each lot in a subdivision shall be assigned a city service address as described in section 12.21.001 of this article. No lot will be assigned more than one (1) number as a part of the city service address for that lot. The origin of the numbering system shall be the center of Highway 183 and East and West Park Streets and shall extend as described below, following the centerlines of streets or their prolongation’s except where otherwise prescribed:
(1) 
North axis.
Northerly on Highway 183 to the north city limits.
(2) 
South axis.
Southerly on Highway 183 to the south city limits.
(3) 
East axis.
Easterly on East Park Street to the city limits, and eastward across undeveloped land to the eastern extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(4) 
West axis.
Westerly on West Park Street to the city limits, and westward across undeveloped land to the western extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(f) 
City service address house numbers are assigned according to location within a rectangular grid, oriented to align with the axis of the numbering system. House numbers are assigned so that their numerical sequence increases along a street in a direction away from the center of the grid pattern. Even numbers are used on the south side of east-west streets, and the east side of north-south streets.
(g) 
Unplatted properties designated as “legal tracts” shall be assigned to a single city service address which will apply to the entire parcel of land.
(h) 
A parcel of land within the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, but not receiving city services, will be assigned a single address for the parcel.
(i) 
Property zoned commercial will require a site plan of development before assignment of address and will receive one city service address for each “legal lot” as described in subsection (c) of this section.
(j) 
Exceptions to these rules governing house numbering may be:
(1) 
Water meters in medians of streets.
(2) 
Permanent sign structures.
(Ordinance CO11-20-01-09-H1 adopted 1/9/20)
(a) 
An application (request) for a permanent street name change may be filed with the City Manager or a designee in the form of a petition signed by:
(1) 
Not less than fifty (50) percent of all owners abutting the subject city street. Owners of such abutting property shall be determined by the city from the then current city’s real property ad valorem tax roll; or
(2) 
A duly authorized officer or attorney representing a governmental agency or department.
(b) 
The application shall state:
(1) 
The present official city name of the street;
(2) 
The proposed new name;
(3) 
The name, address and telephone number of one (1) person with authority to represent binding commitments and take official action relative to such street name change on behalf of each unincorporated association, group or entity, if any, applying;
(4) 
The name of each person, group, agency, or entity requesting the street name change; and
(5) 
Statement of each reason, from among those hereinafter listed, claimed for such street name change.
(c) 
The application must be accompanied by the application processing fee as provided for in the fee schedule found in the appendix of this code, payable, unconditionally and without right of any refund, to the city and in the form of cash, cashier’s or certified check. The application must also be accompanied by payment or be paid prior to any owner notification by the city, to the city, an amount for the manufacture and installation of new street name signs, calculated as hereinafter prescribed, payable in like form except as to refunds; provided, however, no department of the city shall be required to pay such monies in such forms.
(d) 
The City Manager or a designee shall review each application for street name change for compliance with this article.
(e) 
The City Manager or a designee shall be responsible for sending notification personally, by mail, by telephone, or by any one or combination thereof, to the said abutting owners and/or affected governmental agencies and utilities.
(f) 
Applications for street name changes may be considered for any one (1) or more of the following reasons, which must be specified in each application:
(1) 
Technical.
(A) 
To establish continuity of street’s name, i.e, to assure one (1) name of a public way commonly traveled as a single thoroughfare, although the centerlines of segments thereof do not match, as the City Council may determine;
(B) 
To eliminate same spelling duplication, phonetic duplication or misspelling;
(C) 
To enhance ease of location otherwise;
(D) 
To bring coherence to the street numbering system designation (east, west, north, south); or
(E) 
To provide necessary roadway designation (street, road, lane, circle, drive, boulevard, and similar designations).
(2) 
Recognition.
To honor a person, place, institution, group, entity, event and similar subjects.
(3) 
Neighborhood enhancement.
To enhance a neighborhood through association of the street name with its locations, area characteristics, history and the like.
(g) 
The new street name sign charge shall be determined by the City Manager or a designee and shall be based upon an average cost per sign, calculated at the beginning of each fiscal year (considering prevailing and projected market cost, or prior bid cost, or combination thereof in any part, to cover estimated labor and material for installing the standard city street signs) applied to the number of signs the said designee determines to be required for the new street name.
(h) 
All applications found to be consistent upon review, with a stated reason or reasons and meeting or exceeding the other requirements thereof, will be submitted, along with city staff comments, to the City Council for action without public hearing, or for such action after a public hearing if any abutting property owner opposes the proposed street name change. City staff requests for street name changes made necessary by realignment for a major roadway shall not require a public hearing prior to action by the City Council. The City Council may dispose of any application before it as it deems fit.
(i) 
Notification will be sent to all interested governmental agencies, utility and service providers, city departments, and the applicant’s duly authorized representative or representatives upon approval of the application by the City Council.
(j) 
In the event an application is denied by the City Council, the new street sign manufacture and installation charge shall be refunded to the applicant’s duly authorized representative or representatives to be payable on unconditional endorsement only, and, if more than one named applicant, payable jointly.
(k) 
No defect or omission by the city in processing an application or in implementing this section or privilege shall stop, bar, prejudice or impair the free exercise by the city of its powers and duties or materially affect or impair the validity of a city street name change.
(Ordinance CO42-07-07-12-3I adopted 7/12/07)