ATLANTA (AP) - About nine months after a panel recommended the immediate renaming of Confederate Avenue in Atlanta, city officials are planning a public hearing.

  

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a city council committee voted to hold the hearing and a "listening session" in September.

  

That's likely to continue contentious debate over the Civil War-themed name along Confederate and East Confederate Avenues in southeast Atlanta and across the city.

  

Among possible replacement names: Considerate Avenue, United Avenue and Soldier Avenue.

  

Following last summer's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was killed, an Atlanta resident began a name-change petition drive for the Atlanta road.

  

Atlanta is among several cities - including New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas and Richmond, Virginia - which have reviewed Confederate symbols in recent years.