Appropriately enough, Mayor Potter has scheduled a vote on a resolution to rename Interstate for César E. Chávez for Halloween, according to the city clerk. (Why’s Halloween so appropriate? The preceeding public comment just might be a horrific bloodbath).

October 31, 2 pm, City Hall. I’ve got calls in to see what’s up with the Leonard-Sten-Adams potential “new process,” but a vote signals to me that the committee made it clear they’d rather risk a 3-2 or 4-1 vote instead of dealing with more process.

UPDATE @ 4:48: I just caught up with Commissioner Sam Adams, who’s in a “hermetically sealed bunker” (AKA his office at city hall) thanks to TOPOFF. He says he’ll be out of town on the 31st, at a “Rail Volution” conference.

[EDIT: According to the mayor’s office, Adams will be in town—they aimed to schedule the vote for a time when the entire council would be present. I checked in with Adams’ office, and indeed, he is headed to Miami for the Rail Volution conference, but he’s taking a red-eye—after the Interstate vote.]

“I’m not going to be here, but I lean toward the process. Our de facto process for the city has been we’ll rename the street if there’s no significant opposition to the proposal. I think any neighborhood in the city would have the kind of response we’re getting from North Portland if two major streets were renamed in the course of a year. It’s a lot to ask any neighborhood in Portland,” he says. “I’d love to have a major street be renamed, and Interstate would be considered as well through the process that Randy has talked about.”

I’m waiting for a call back from Randy Leonard’s chief of staff—Leonard’s in Europe, not in a hermetically sealed fake bunker. Are they still going to call for additional process?