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Names of streets

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2403308)

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.

You are correct about Loma Paseo NOT being on a hill--I have a house on that street, and it's pretty flat. Very nice street, though.

Explain why Kaylee Drive is nowhere near the Kaylee Villas. Dumb...

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Originally Posted by Altavia (Post 2403423)

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.

...and many south of 44 are named Avenue, but are actually long loops, so no one bothered to think it through logically. Many would be better named Loop. There are a few streets I wouldn't want to find my dream house on in TV.

Please give me a call at 508-454-4000 to talk about a book to TV...thanks, Richard

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Originally Posted by Kelevision (Post 2403508)

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.

Na, they had to sell over 40 homes …….

Na, they had to sell over 40 homes …….not a big fan of all these streets named after people. Gets real old saying/spelling it all the time to others ……

How Do House Numbers get Strangely Assigned in Southern TV?

So, recent comments about street naming convention in TV made me wonder again about the idiocyncracies with the house numbers. For instance, in our area some streets have 3 digit house numbers, and the street over has 4 digit house numbers. And further, each house on the even side goes up 4 numbers, instead of 2, and same with the odd side. For instance, 642, 646, 650, 654... why do they skip the even numbers in between? The next street parallel might be 5653, 5657, 5661. Must be an (il)logical reason.

Developments I’ve completed had address numbers set by the Post Office. Many cities, with central core, the numbers are greater the further north or south from that core, east and west too.

There is a Merry St and an Earl way off Hillsborough Trail. My first name is Merry and my husbands name was Earl.
I have no idea how it happened, but thought it was kind of cool.

Brownwood streets are named after the town in MI where some of family lived. Torch Lake is so clear and deep at times, it’s a little scary and beautiful at the same time.

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Originally Posted by BrianL99 (Post 2403310)

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".)

My favorite street name up north near me was "Lazy Girls Lane".

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Originally Posted by justjim (Post 2403250)

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.

Dagenais, our neighborhood has streets named after Long time employees. Linden.

Some streets in Glenview are named after Illinois towns. I live as far north in The Villages as possible in Marion County just south of route 42. Our address is The Villages and not Summerfield, Fl. At one time 20 some years ago, our mail was addressed to Lady Lake but eventually just became The Villages.

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Originally Posted by Mrfriendly (Post 2403233)

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

They put a bunch of names in a hat and pull them as streets a laid out on the plat. I live on 6-7/8.

I was told many years ago that streets are named after the Morse family members, realtors and locations that have significant meaning to the family. Not sure how they pick names now for all developments south of 44