Demonizing the greedy developer again??ÿ
If you go back in time far enough, the space where your current house is sitting on was occupied by a tree.
How many developments and streets in your city have not a single tree but bear names including the words Forest, Woods, or a tree species?
Most subdivisions with names were named after what WAS there: Antelope Meadows, Pines Hills, Cactus Patch, and whatever.
I years ago had a client named Tom Lindquist who worked for Trammel Crow. I imagine that he has this framed on his wall.?ÿ
Most subdivisions with names were named after what WAS there: Antelope Meadows, Pines Hills, Cactus Patch, and whatever.
Had a development project once named "Pleasant Meadow Farms", a rural residential area with less than 2 acre lots.?ÿ The property directly next door was a working dairy farm and had been for 60 years.?ÿ The milking barn's runoff pond and the feed lot for 150 Holsteins was directly adjacent to the common property line.?ÿ Needless to say the summer air got a little ripe and the flies could be thick.
It took about 6 months for the HOA to complain about the smell and the flies.?ÿ I was at a city council meeting once and listened to one very uninformed lady ask the council what she was suppose to do if "one of those wild animals got loose..".
The property owners' complaints were pretty much futile since the dairy had been there for years but they tried and tried.?ÿ I think they eventually put up an expensive and tall wooden sight fence so they wouldn't have to look at a farm...
...from their domiciles nestled in Pleasant Meadow Farms.
Most subdivisions with names were named after what WAS there: Antelope Meadows, Pines Hills, Cactus Patch, and whatever.
The other option here in the Mid-Atlantic is to try and make it sound vaguely British upper class.?ÿ I grew up here
Back in my days at Silo Tech I spent a couple of years living about three blocks from The Dairy Barns. Plenty of dairy cows and all that came with them. It was amusing to overhear an occasional neighbor gripe and I told them it smelled like money to me. Then I would educate them as to how the cows had been located there for about 70 years before the subdivision was created where we were living.Told him the cows had Squatter's Rights.
As soon as a developer in FL digs a hole that will hold water (at least temporarily) the upcoming subdivision becomes "Something" Lake Estate Homes. ?????ÿ
The very first job I worked on, after graduation as an engineer in NZ, was rodman and geotech boy on a 200 lot residential subdivision that the developer had named Bungkoola (true). Near the end of construction, the developer was in our office and announced they'd renamed it to something like Lynford (I can't remember exactly), and I overheard our survey department boss say "thank f..k for that".
