The new entrance to Eastlake High School will have a very familiar name.

The City of Sammamish approved a resolution Monday, renaming the portion of 233rd Avenue Northeast between Northeast 8th Street and EHS, Stan Chapin Way.

The recognition came two weeks after the popular school resource officer died unexpectedly at his home.

“We wanted to find some way to honor him in addition to what had already been done,” Sammamish mayor Tom Odell said. “We felt that the new entrance to the high school was the perfect place because he was such a fixture to the school for so many years.”

Chapin, 61, was in his 12th year of working as a resource officer at Eastlake and Inglewood Junior High. He was approaching 40 years in the King County Sheriff’s Office.

The roadway will act as a second entrance to Eastlake, which currently only has one route in and out of the school on Northeast 4th Street. The new entrance is part of the Lake Washington School District’s expansion of the high school.

According to Odell, there is also consideration of adding a monument to honor Chapin. He said one concept is placing a boulder with a dedicated plaque in the middle of a new roundabout on the soon-to-be renamed 233rd Avenue Northeast.

“The idea is, many years from now, when the memories have faded, we’ll still have something there,” he said.