How do Villages streets get their names!
 

Would anyone know how each new village street names gets decided?

The Villages.

Village of Caroline many streets were named after small towns in North and South Carolina. Kind of cool! Some streets I observed are named after Property of The Villages sales agents and other Village employees. As noted, The Developer makes the call.

I wouldn’t even look at a house if the street name was too stupid. You live with it on every document and application. Most are fine, but some……???

Right? I see these addresses up in the northern area that are numbered and then named! Who wants to recite "12324 187th terrace Pine st" every time someone needs your address!

Villages employees with more then five years seniority. Told to us on a trolley tour.

I wouldn't look at a house if I found out the neighbors were too stupid. You live with them every day, whether you have documents or not. Most are fine, but some.........................................????? ????????????????????????????????

Meanwhile - to answer the question asked:

It appears that the naming of the roads is dependent on the village in question. Over on the Historic side, many of the roads were named in honor of the Schwartz and Tarrson families, such as roads bearing the founders' names, Boone Court (a Schwartz family member), and Kiley. In addition some were named for the owners of the properties that were there before they developed the trailer park that became The Villages. Bowersox Road, to my knowledge, was named after the Bowersox farm that occupied much of the land there. One section of the Historic Section was named after flowers. Magnolia, Orchid, Daffodil, etc. Another has roads named for famous golf courses, such as St. Andrews, Pebble Beach, and Cyprus Point.

In the Spanish Springs area, it looks like they picked random spanish words and phrases that sounded good without much thought to their meaning. Agua way, is not along the edge of any waterway or retention pond. Rio Grande Avenue is not near any rivers, grand or otherwise. Loma Paseo drive isn't on a hill.

At least you don't have to use your Village name on your address ... who would want "Chitty Chatty" on most every document in their life?

(I had a real estate developer friend, years ago. Built a little small development for his family. Named the street "Easy Street".)

That’s Marion county, naming method.

I want to live on "This" street, but not on "That" street.

Oh! And definitely not on "Whatever" way.

Fenney is predominately names of birds.

Is that why your street is called bird brain?

Developer family dart board!

And they use a mix of Street suffex: Trail, Avenue, Parkway, Boulevard, Drive, Street, Road, Lane, Court, Loop, Circle, Run, Place, Path, Terrace, Way, ...

Some are a clue for how the street routes.

Our sales agent told us that most of the Villages streets named in the past few years were last names of the Villages employees including some sales agents.

It is my understanding that Marion county requires the street name be a number and TV wants a name so they compromise and used both.

Naming streets is a challenge. Layers of government approval to keep from using a name which is the same as elsewhere in the county, or confusing to EMS. To get ahead of the curve, I would create long lists of names to get approved in advance. When naming streets I selected a theme or names from my favorite areas to travel. One year I focused on names from historic Texas cattle ranches. The 911 folks didn’t care for most. Another year I focused on historic Las Vegas casino names and people. I even have a couple out there with my name. Driving The Villages, or any planned community, I look for the patterns in the names.

I wouldn't live in a village named chitty chatty..........

Some streets are named after people living/working here. John Rohan has a rec center named after him. Morse Blvd is named after the developer. Boone Court is named after Mr. Morses' daughter, mother of Megan Boone from Blacklist. Tutt Place opposite neighborhood Walmart is named after Janet Tutt...originally the district manager.

Same Last Name
 

You won’t want the same last name as a street name. For instance John Doe on Doe Drive would be a reoccurring Doe, Doe. That and there can be a lot of work involved in redirecting and misplaced parcels.

Scrabble.

Had a friend who was a RE agent in the villages. She said streets are named after a realtor based on how many homes they sold for the villages

Long Address
 

Yes, the addresses up north may be a pain to write and recite, but they may save your life! I have been told that it's for the emergency vehicles to find your residence faster. Besides, it fun to recite your address to someone who's writing down because it seems like it never ends!!

There are many ways… they use names they know, people who work here in some capacity. The law firm McLin Burnsed for example. Both names are used in TV yet no actual McLin or Burnsed works at McLin Burnsed. My realtor has a street name but so does my friend from Leesburg who’s never lived in the Villages but her family is very well known in Leesburg.

It would be fun if there were a master list somewhere with a brief explanation of where the names came from. My street is only one block long with about twenty courtyard villas on it. Does that mean the person wasn’t very important?

Churchill Downs and Pimlico rec centers, not far apart, are named after famous horse races, as is the nearby Morven Park Way. I thought for several years that Rohan Rec Center was a reference to Lord of the Rings and the Riders of Rohan. I was hoping there would be a Frodo Street, Bilbo Street, Gandalf Street, Aragorn Avenue, Sauron Blvd., or whatever. Alas, it’s named after some villages hot shot we might otherwise not have heard of.

The street names in my area are named after trees and plants. It is my understanding that the street names are coordinated with the name of the village but who knows. The best source of information, to OPs question, is the developer and his build and design teams.

For the newer developments, my RE agent told me the street names are surnames of The Villages employees (presumably on some kind of seniority or merit basis.)

You send in an agreement to buy a street name and for only pennies a day it can be yours

Agreed! We looked at a home on a street with a crazy complicated spelling that we couldn’t pronounce, and even though we liked the home we didn’t buy it because of the street name. Unfortunately, we ended up with a home (brand new) that has an address number the same as at least three other homes in our village, including one just around the corner from us that’s an Airbnb rental property. Twice now we’ve had renters trying to use a key to enter our home late at night because they’ve mistaken it for that rental home. Plus, there’s been a few delivery mistakes for us and the others with our same address number.

No kidding, it's gotten completely ridiculous down south. I did kinda want to live on Pagen Lane in St. Catherines though when it was getting built out.

Some you've gotta make sure you spell right. "No it's F A L L I S not P H A L L U S" like how many times would you say that living there?

Joe

Guess you wouldn’t consider “Old Lebanon Dirt Road!”😝

Friends and associates names came first, then computer generated lists. There are a few streets with the same name, but only 3 that I'm aware of.

That's because Marion County would not give up their numbering nomenclature. The developer wanted street names only, the county wanted county quadrants and numbers (like Miami and other cities in Florida). The compromise was what we have now. They both got their way. But try addressing two envelopes, one with 1234 Pine St. and one with 1234 SE 187th St., and they will both get there. The Post Office has both in their Zip system.

Skip

I'm 90% sure if anyone high enough up in TV ever reads that comment, that it will become a new add-on option to name your own street for $2000/year.

How do Villages streets get their names?
 

How about "Bassinger Court" intersecting with "Baldwin Run"? Remember that LOVING : couple, Kim Bassinger and Alex Baldwin!?? LOL!

We live on Pagan Way in St. Catherine. Who was the braintrust who thought that was a good idea? I’ve been told it’s pronounced “pa gan’,”but it’s so much funnier the other way.

I think the management gets to play monopoly in naming streets. I believe IF YOU COULD GET ALL TO AGREE, and pay for the signs, you could change the name.

Far as THE VILLAGES, have you never needed to give your ship to address to somebody, they ask for city and you say THE VILLAGES and they wonder about you?

We have a street named after our Italian last name in DeLuna....pretty cool!

I WOULD. Grid pattern first second third STREET etc. The cross streets are first, second third AVENUE.