A friend asked me about his plat.
Never seen a plat like this.?ÿ
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Strange.?ÿ Must be a condo arrangement where the HOA owns the area outside the circles.
I don’t know which came first: the sub map or the houses. Maybe they built the houses and then put circles around them
So, the area both outside the circular lots and outside the street ROW must be a common access easement or similar?
We have one of those. The Surveyor set a tagged rebar at the center of the circle which of course gets destroyed when the house gets built. Everything outside the circle is common area. The reality is the houses (custom houses) may not necessarily be exactly all in the circle and the home owners spread out and landscape and build patios ignoring the circular Lot lines.
I think it was a fad in the 70s and 80s.
The common area is HOA maintained and I assume insured. So if there??s an accident there could be a very real argument whether it??s the home owner??s or HOA??s liability.?ÿ
To me, it looks like a graphic exhibit in a zoning change application or something along those lines with circles demonstrating residential density vs. open space. ?????ÿ
This fad must have crashed and burned after someone decided they'd like a fence.
@dave-karoly are you thinking of the one East of Cloverdale or is it NE of Geyserville?
that one was a mess, I tried doing something adjoining it, but it was a no win area (-$).
We were all hungry in 1980+/- but there was no gas money in that one, desolate canyon.
I believe one or two of the good old boys in the area counseled me on it, pretty much vacant for many other reasons
Cluster subdivisions sometimes look like that.
I'd be surprised if perimeter fences are allowed in that type of subdivision-
If it can be imagined, someone has already done it, no matter how silly it looks at first glance.
Rancho Murrieta is a big planned subdivision near Sacramento, one or two units are this style.
A survey involving one of those circular lots a couple of decades ago was the only time I've ever had a client try to bribe me. He wanted us to "move" his improvements inside the lot so his remodel application would get approved by the review committee. We declined and walked away from the job, taking the loss rather than getting further involved with the guy. He was bad news.
I did a topo of a vacant lot, we found the central rebar, I located House corners on the adjoining lots and it seems to me the houses went past the circles into the common area, not to mention patios, fences, landscaping, etc.
