[Tagging] Paper streets?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:04 PM,  <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> I was reacting to the fact that some people were defining paper streets as "streets that haven't been built and never will be", rather than the definition used at the start of the discussion, "streets that haven't been built yet."

Neither of those is quite correct. A paper street is an unoccupied
right-of-way that is recognized by the local government in the same
way as it recognizes the right-of-way of a public street. In effect,
one of the two steps in creating a public roadway has been taken, but
the other has not. (Sometimes the order is reversed; a road may be
built on private land and then deeded to the government.) It generally
has no "on the ground" existence, but is as real as a city boundary or
the edge of an undeveloped nature reserve.