City leaders on Monday answered the big question: what feature of Auburn’s landscape should they name after former Mayor Pete Lewis.

By unanimous vote, they preferred a lake on West Hill to the Auburn Environmental Park, the other finalist.

“My primary reason (for supporting the West Hill option) is that we are trying to build a closer linkage between the West Hill and our city, and it would be nice to take something that currently has no name at all and bring it into the fold and name it after one of our mayors,” said Deputy Mayor Largo Wales.

“I think we know that former Mayor Lewis is an avid fisher person, and so I think a lake is really appropriate for him,” said Councilman Rich Wagner.

Council member Yolanda Trout-Manuel noted that in a recent conversation with Lewis, the former mayor had expressed his preference for the lake on West Hill, which became part of Auburn in the 2008 annexation that also brought Lea Hill into the city.

“The reason why he liked the lake was because he really wants the youth to take advantage of that and get kids off the street,” Trout-Manuel said.

Lewis was Auburn’s three-term mayor from 2002 to 2014.

Unanswered was what the lake will officially be known as: Lake Lewis? Lago Lewis? Pete’s Pond?

Among the seven possibilities on the original list were the M Street Southeast underpass, and a 20-acre site along the Green River on 104th Street Southeast, which is to become a City park.

Bearing the names of former mayors are Gaines Park, Les Gove Park, the Charles A. Booth Bridge and the Stanley Kersey Bridge.