I don't live too far from Plantation Road, so I'm familiar with the neighborhood. It's located about halfway between Wm. Cannon and Slaughter to the north and south; the neighborhood is tucked between Brodie on the west and West Gate to the east.
Very few people know this, but it was once a freedman's town called Kincheonville. There are still remnants of the village in the form of an old street grid, even though it eventually got swallowed by Austin in the 1970s. Those streets are, I assume, named for the founding Kincheon family. So, there's Thomas Kincheon, Dalton, Elija, Blumie, and Minnie. There are even a couple old African American churches in this otherwise very suburban neighborhood.
But here's the deal. When the 1970s portion of the neighborhood was built, the developer named a few streets that recalled slavery. For example, the Plantation Rd. mentioned in the article. There are also Oak Alley and Dunliegh, plantation names in Louisiana and Mississippi respectively, as well as a Harpers Ferry.
Now, I don't know if renaming the streets is the right thing to do and it certainly wouldn't be convenient for residents. But can we at least acknowledge that, in this one instance, the developer seemed to be intentionally pouring salt in the wound? Maybe I'm overly sensitive to "white guilt." But as long as I've lived in this part of town (since '04), I've always found that naming the streets after plantations in a former freedman's town was an especially shitty thing to do.