I am aware of a subdivision where the developer had such a strip along one side (about 1300 feet), labeled it Lot One and never sold it, I suppose one of his heirs still owns it.?ÿ There were two or three stubbed streets ending against that strip.?ÿ I'm sure his goal was to prevent another developer from buying up adjoining land for a subdivision and having any streets there connect with streets in the first subdivision.?ÿ Sort of a spite strip.?ÿ It has worked out that way, too.
@holy-cow Yeah, there was a shopping center here that had a 1 foot strip along the right of way to prevent access except through the main road.?ÿ That lasted a few years until the County condemned that strip for road widening.?ÿ Access is allowed now.
Andy
@andy-bruner Back in the early 80s the 1ft strip set up by developers to block access to or connect a new road into an old road was declared illegal in Texas
@a-harris It may be here now.?ÿ The original development was done in the 70s.
Might have been done through zoning regulations. The spite strips will violate many rules of associated with land division. Length vs width, minimum lot size. No need to pass a law to prevent them if the zoning rules do it. It would be interesting to see what Texas did.?ÿ
