Forget that America was discovered by a guy exploring for Spain

The OC Weekly (Orange County, Calif,) reports that the city planner in a Spanish-named town, with city designs inspired by Spain, doesn't like Spanish-based street names because he can't pronounce them.

Historically, Mission Viejo has had street names drawn from Spanish. After all, the Dispatch points out, the city's original developer sent representatives to Spain in the 1960s to get design ideas for the new master-planned community.

The issue came up at a planning commission meeting, leading Lennar to submit a new batchof more Mission Viejo-ish names, like "Via Cielo" and "Via Panorama."

Planning commissioner Robert Bruchmann, though, wishes they'd kept the old names. Here's part of his letter to the Mission Viejo Dispatch:

"Frankly I liked the initial submission of names [by Lennar], mainly because I can pronounce them."