Herriman's Red Sox street names went national; the plat behind them was approved in 2021

HERRIMAN — A social post on Sept. 12 about a house tour in a Herriman subdivision turned into a national story about ten street names: Ipswitch Way and Yawkey Way on the periphery, with Fisk Drive, Remy Road, Pesky Lane, Eovaldi Avenue, Pedroia Street, Xander Lane, Varitek Drive and Boggs Way inside them 1.

Major League Baseball's own site published the account on Sept. 18, naming the man who chose the names: Brandon Parr, a project manager at the Utah builder EDGEhomes, who was assigned the Copper Fields subdivision in 2021 1. "I'm like, 'Really? I get to choose what they are?'" Parr told MLB.com. "'I'm doing Red Sox'" 1.

FOX 13 News followed on Sept. 21, reporting that city communications manager Jonathan LaFollette had spotted the pattern during the Planning Commission's review in 2021 and had waited for someone else to notice 2. LaFollette described the city's role in the naming to the station: developers submit plans for a subdivision, including proposed street names, and the city approves them unless it finds a significant issue 2.

**What the city's record shows**

The names arrived the way every street name in Herriman arrives: inside a subdivision application. On June 17, 2021, the Planning Commission approved a preliminary plat for Copper Fields at Creek Ridge — 257 single-family lots generally at 6400 West Herriman Boulevard, filed as S2020-023 — with staff's ten recommendations and an added condition requiring two trail connections to the regional park 3. Six commissioners voted aye and the motion passed unanimously; Commissioner Heather Garcia is recorded as not voting 3.

The acreage, the zone and the applicant's agent appear in the city's notice for the next stage rather than in the preliminary plat vote. The Planning Commission's July 15, 2021 agenda lists a final site plan for 257 lots at Copper Fields at Creek Ridge, applicant Edge Homes with Spencer Llewellyn as agent, zone R-2-10, 45.05 acres, file number C2020-024 4.

The city's own submittal checklist for a final plat asks for "proposed street names and numbers conforming to Herriman City and Salt Lake County standards," which is where a developer's proposed list enters the record 5.

**Why there is no Ortiz Street**

The absence of David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez or Ted Williams is explained by the county's duplicate check. LaFollette told MLB.com that the city reviews a developer's proposed list, typically approves it absent something offensive, and then sends it to Salt Lake County, which cross-checks every name against existing streets across the county so that no two streets share one 1. Common surnames are the ones most likely to collide in the state's most populous county 1.

Parr put it plainly: "I'm sure there's a ton of Williams Streets or Williams Lanes or Williams Circles" 1. Xander Bogaerts became Xander Lane because the surname would not fit the city's length limit, and Jerry Remy, who died in October 2021, was added as a tribute 1.

Salt Lake County's check also means the naming is not purely decorative. A name that clears the county register becomes part of the address system, which is why Herriman's council has been careful about renaming roads. In August 2025, drafting a policy on sponsorships, donations and naming rights, the council discussed naming roads after individuals and the practical difficulty of changing street names, citing the Delta Center's several names and "the addressing nightmares created when Herriman Street became four different addresses." Council consensus was to keep the policy to events, parks and gathering places rather than roads 6.

**The attention**

The story reached Major League Baseball's own accounts: MLB.com's feature ran on Sept. 18 1, and the league's own X account floated a "Tolle Terrace" after Payton Tolle threw an immaculate inning 1. LaFollette told FOX 13 the city has "a strong youth baseball culture, but it's not a place a lot of people think of in association with baseball" 2.

Parr has kept going. He told MLB.com he had already used Rafael Devers (Devers Drive), Trevor Story (Story Lane) and Hanley Ramirez (Hanley Lane) on streets in a Riverton development and repeated the Devers and Story names in Lehi, and that he wants to build another Boston-themed subdivision 1. EDGEhomes has run other themed naming schemes in Herriman, including a neighbourhood named for arches in Arches National Park 1.

**What happens next**

Nothing. Parr told MLB.com the project began in 2021 and the first phase was recorded in 2022, so the names have been in place for three or four years 1. The only live question is whether another builder repeats the exercise, which is a decision no city body votes on beyond the plat in front of it 35.