I doubt that anyone who lives or works on 39th Avenue is in the mood to start planning a petition drive for next year, but if I read Title 17 of the Portland City Code correctly, starting a year from now, they could petition to rename the street after some other famous person who has been deceased for at least five years. They can't petition to change the name back to 39th, because the code allows citizens to petition to rename streets only after deceased famous persons. I can't think of any famous person whose last name is "Thirty-Ninth" but it would be amusing to see the City Council grapple, in the fall of 2010, with a petition to rename Cesar Chavez Boulevard after, say, Mildred Schwab.