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Post by tripper on Aug 14, 2017 9:46:47 GMT -5
I grew up as a fourth-generation child in northern Michigan. It pegged me in Milwaukee and Madison, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI, so it was pretty close. In Michigan, almost everyone refers to carbonated beverages as "pop", and that's what I grew up using. Somewhere along the line I switched to "soda". I never knew there was a term for the grass between the sidewalk and the street. I always thought it was just "lawn".[/quote] Isn't it the easement?
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Post by Peabody on Aug 14, 2017 11:10:27 GMT -5
It is at least related to an easement. It is owned by the municipality; you must maintain it as part of the conditions upon which you were granted an easement to access your driveway.
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Post by JudgeKnot on Aug 14, 2017 11:25:09 GMT -5
It's not necessarily an easement. Sometimes the road is created as an easement, with a right-of-way over the underlying fee which is owned by the landowners. It probably varies by state, and even by municipality. In subdivisions, the municipality does not always own the roads or the sidewalks. To get back to the original comment, I was just saying that I never knew there was a special term used to describe that narrow strip of grass between the sidewalk and the curb, but according to that linguistic test, there are terms that vary between geographic regions. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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Post by burghbum on Aug 14, 2017 12:02:14 GMT -5
It's not necessarily an easement. Sometimes the road is created as an easement, with a right-of-way over the underlying fee which is owned by the landowners. It probably varies by state, and even by municipality. In subdivisions, the municipality does not always own the roads or the sidewalks. To get back to the original comment, I was just saying that I never knew there was a special term used to describe that narrow strip of grass between the sidewalk and the curb, but according to that linguistic test, there are terms that vary between geographic regions. Back to your regularly scheduled programming. We have always called it the devil strip. And that wasn't even an option!
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Post by gary on Aug 14, 2017 12:08:30 GMT -5
Parkway. Or doggie toilet.
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Post by acttwo on Aug 14, 2017 12:42:39 GMT -5
Having had to prosecute tree criminals, i.e., persons who trimmed a tree on said parkway/tree park/devil's strip, I can say the official phrase in Chicago is tree park. And yes, even if YOU planted the tree on the tree park, you are NOT permitted to trim it--it is deemed a donation to the city and only city arborist teams may trim. And the city's chief arborist has NO sense of humor about violations!
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Post by JudgeKnot on Aug 14, 2017 14:35:05 GMT -5
Having had to prosecute tree criminals, i.e., persons who trimmed a tree on said parkway/tree park/devil's strip, I can say the official phrase in Chicago is tree park. And yes, even if YOU planted the tree on the tree park, you are NOT permitted to trim it--it is deemed a donation to the city and only city arborist teams may trim. And the city's chief arborist has NO sense of humor about violations! Last Man Standing had a great episode called "Tree of Strife" where he deals with the official city arborist. He might have been played by Chicago's arborist - they sound like two peas in a pod.
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Post by msp on Aug 14, 2017 16:59:59 GMT -5
Treelawn or devil's strip - or tree-lawn or devil strip - not to go off the rails on a punctuation hijacking.
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Post by Peabody on Aug 14, 2017 18:34:30 GMT -5
Not to be too cheeky, but would Brazilian Sidewalk work? If it IS too cheeky, please someone PM me now - I am not trying to be offensive!
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Post by bernadetteb on Aug 17, 2017 14:56:37 GMT -5
Having left the South in the stone age, this test was amazingly accurate for my initial pod location (deep South), and the relocation curtesy of a civil service job relocation for my family (I was 7 at the time) to another but much more dismal deep South midstate deadspot. Escaped to a major Southern city for college and moved approx. 2100 miles in a geographic solution. Dang y'all, guess the accent sticks (although I considered a serious discourse on "y'all" as the lost declension of the plural "you" in English under the French Norman reign post 1066 .... then decided law school was better than further formal education in English lit and history)
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Post by SPN Lifer on Apr 4, 2019 22:47:35 GMT -5
Perhaps some of the subsequent threads should be merged into this classic?
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