I only wanted to say that your avatar is one beautiful feline. I'm a cat lover myself and yours looks adorable.

Thanks Zman - sure is a strange way of numbering streets (being from Chicago, 80th was followed by 81st and then 82nd etc)(same in SF East Bay Alameda County based on Oakland streets - we lived on 342nd, 20 miles South from downtown Oakland)


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Yesterday, I tried the EMS station in Springdale but they gave me a look like a deer caught in headlights. Today, I took a cart ride down to the Marion County police substation at RT 42 but I found out that the cart path there is under construction and could not get through. And yes I read all of the multinodal path bulletins but it did not dawn on me that the access to the police substation was closed. It was a nice ride and it cooled me off from my golf outing this morning.

I sent a note to The Villages and was sent a PDF that covers it all with all of the whereas and wherefores but I am asking to see if I can post the entire PDF. I don't want to get into any trouble.

But as a forerunner, here are some excerpts. Enjoy!!


WHEREAS the E9-1-1 Emergency Number Telephone System is intricately
intertwined, related to and dependent upon a uniform addressing system; and
WHEREAS, Marion county recognizes that readily locating and finding the proper location is vital to providing fire and emergency services

WHEREAS E9-1-1 Emergency Number Telephone System is established to
promote, protect and improve the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Marion County, Florida; and the Board of County Commissioners of Marion County has determined that it is in the best interest of the public health, safety and well being of the citizens of Marion County to use and enforce a uniform street numbering system, so that every building in Marion County shall have a uniquely numbered address;


There is adopted for the numbering, naming and designation of thoroughfares,
alleys, and public and private ways in the County, the system known as the Quadrant System whereby the County is divided into four Sections designated northeast (NE), northwest (NW), southeast (SE) and southwest (SW).


1. Avenue: A north/south running road, primarily within the first third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

2. Avenue Road: A north/south running meandering road within the first third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

3. Court: A north/south running road, primarily within the second third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

4. Court Road: A north/south running meandering road within the second third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

5. Terrace: A north/south running road, named primarily from the third third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

6. Terrace Road: A north/south running meandering road within the third third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

7. Circle: A north/south road that takes a circular position, ends back upon itself, ends back upon another road from which it originates or takes any shape other than a conventional quadrant system road name designation.

8. Street: An east/west running road, named primarily from the first third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

9. Street Road: An east/west running meandering road within the first third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

10. Place: An east/west running road, named primarily from the second third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

11. Place Road: An east/west running meandering road within the second third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

12. Lane: An east/west running road, named primarily from the third third of the grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line.

13. Lane Road: An east/west running meandering road within the third third of its grid, closest to the zero (0) grid line, usually crossing grid lines, named from the most major intersection.

14. Loop: An east/west road that takes a circular position, ends back upon itself, ends back upon another road from which it originates or takes any shape other than a conventional quadrant system road name designation.

So it you made it this far it is like I said in my original post. I live in Marion county. My understanding is that the direction (SE, etc) and the number (91st, etc) is for fire and police call directions.

THe PDF is is from the Marion County website and is their ordinance.

Here is the full PDF for the doubters: http://www.marioncountyfl.org/911Mgm...gOrdinance.pdf

Z

Civil engineers. I should have known. They should be shot on sight without a jury trial.

Thanks for sharing the results of your research, zcaveman.

I bet every emergency responder can get to any address post haste whether it is north/south, east/ west, meanders, loops, a road, an avenue, etc., or any combination of the preceding. It's part of their training. That is why you may see a fire truck cruising through the 'hood for no apparent reason.

Thanks again, z.

When I worked on the fire department we used to have little quizzes just for fun. Someone would name a street and you had to identify a cross section street. OK, I know, that's lame. But we had lots of time to kill between calls.

If it is a system to make it easy for emergency personnel what is easier than running numbers consecutively?

Who ever heard of an "avenue road" or a "place road" or 98th being followed by 47th?

Goofballs!


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Just try finding something in downtown Ocala.
 

Drive up to Ocala and look at the addresses around the downtown area. All the 4 quadrants seem to converge around Ocala's downtown. It gets very confusing when you have a low address as there could be 4 of them in that area that look very similar except for the NE, NW, SE, and SW.

That is why I like to use Google maps (or one of those map apps) to find the place I want to go. I map it and look at it and, if necessary, print out the instructions.