San Jose is putting a Barack Obama Boulevard on its map.

The San Jose city council on Tuesday afternoon unanimously approved a community-led effort that has been in the works for nearly three years to rename portions of Bird Avenue, South Montgomery Street, South Autumn Street and North Autumn Street to Barack Obama Boulevard.

Although it is unclear how quickly the changes will take effect, the new name will stretch across approximately 4,300 feet of roadway between Interstate 280 and West St John Street just west of the city’s downtown core, running parallel to the Diridon Station and the Guadalupe River alongside the eastern edge of Google’s planned transit village area and the SAP Center.

“It’s an ongoing reminder of the importance of America electing it’s first African American and person of color as president and a message to every person in San Jose that no matter who they are or where they come from that they too can achieve their dreams,” said Alex Shoor, one of the community members behind the proposal.

San Jose will join more than a dozen cities across the country, including Los Angeles and St. Louis, to name a street in honor of the 44th president.

The pitch to name a street in San Jose after Obama was launched three years ago by Shoor, a community advocate who volunteered on Obama’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Since then, Shoor and a group of dedicated community members collected thousands of signatures in support of the proposal, raised more than $9,000 for implementation costs and garnered approval from city and state elected officials, including Former Sen. Jim Beall and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.

“There will undoubtedly be people with different views in politics in this city… but I hope that particularly over time, we all increasingly recognize what I think was the extraordinary role that Barack Obama played not simply as president of the United State but as someone who could help realize a vision that we all share in a country that has been torn by racial division for its entire history,” Liccardo said during Tuesday’s city council meeting.

Last fall, the group of community members worked with city staff to evaluate where to place the new name across the city and decided on the chosen streets given the proximity to the downtown core, feedback from nearby residents and business owners on the street and whether the street was “befitting” of Obama’s name, according to Shoor.

While the city councilmember unanimously approved the street renaming, at least one resident brought up concerns over the chosen location to drape the 44th president’s name.

San Jose resident Paul Soto called it “offensive” to associate Obama’s name on the city’s west side — an area of the city that historically used discriminatory practices like racial covenants and redlining to explicitly or implicitly lockout non-white homeowners — and near Google’s controversial planned mega-campus.

“This is the kind of stuff that Google wants to use to sanitize its reputation by having on all of its letterheads the word association between Barack Obama and Google,” Soto said.

Shoor, however, said that Google’s campus and any other related developments did not play a role in the decision. Since the street renaming proposal was in the works before Google announced plans for its new San Jose campus, the tech giant opted to stay out of the process and let the community decide where to place the new street name, according to Liccardo.

“Barack Obama is a man who points to the future of this country and gives it a lot of hope and possibility, and this part of (the city) has a lot of opportunities for the future,” Shoor said.