With the announcement this week that Crystal City–sorry, National Landing–scored half of Amazon’s HQ2, a name of a road that cuts through Arlington and is being earmarked for improvements is getting some renewed interest. While all official press releases refer to the road as “Route 1,” the green signs that hang above the road still reads “Jefferson Davis Highway.”

Unsurprisingly, this is something that the Arlington County Board wants to see changed. “Jefferson Davis is not a name that represents what we are trying to create here in Arlington,” says Arlington County Board Chair Katie Cristol, “He’s seen as one of the more extreme voices in the Confederacy and full-throatedly in support of the institution of slavery. It’s not a name that matches [Arlington’s] values in the 21st century.”

But there are complications to making that change. Due to long-standing laws (like the Byrd Road Act) and previous state attorney general decisions, Arlington does not have the ability to change the name itself. This differs from the neighboring city of Alexandria, which has the authority to make such alterations and did so earlier this year, renaming their portion of “Jefferson Davis Highway” to “Richmond Highway.”

As first reported by ARLnow, the board will meet on November 17 to discuss their legislative agenda for the upcoming Virginia General Assembly session. On the agenda is to “explore avenues to allow Arlington County to rename the section of Jefferson Davis Highway.” They’ve tried to do this before. Last year, Arlington also attempted to convince the General Assembly to grant the county the authority to do just that, but to no avail.

Arlington County Board Vice Chair Christian Dorsey says that this time, though, he’s “cautiously optimistic.” That’s because the arrival of Amazon has highlighted the inconsistency in having the name of the same road be different in two different spots.

“While I also have deep-seated personal concerns about the road’s name,” says Dorsey, “from a transportation network management perspective, it should be consistent.” He thinks, along with the inappropriate nature of having a road named after Jefferson Davis in Virginia (in addition to the whole being president of the Confederacy thing, he didn’t even live in the state), this economic argument could be enough to convince the legislature to either change the name to “Richmond Highway” or grant Arlington the authority to do it itself.

The road was named for Davis in 1912 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and ran the entire country, from Washington state to Virginia. Nowadays, the name “Jefferson Davis Highway” is rarely used to describe the road, except in Alabama, the Carolinas–and Arlington, Virginia.

Jacob Fenston contributed reporting.