[Talk-us-massachusetts] CR/PRD labeled green spaces

[Bill Ricker]

Interesting.

This might be a case where OSM "abbreviate everything" may be overboard.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 14:10 Angela Morley <silivrenion at gmail.com> wrote:

> GlenAsp actually messaged me direct on OSM and answered the questions
> thusly, fyi...
>
> CR stands for Conservation Restriction, which is a way of permanently
> protecting land from development while retaining ownership. (Essentially,
> the owner deeds the development rights, usually to a town or land trust, in
> perpetuity.) Most states other than Massachusetts call it a conservation
> easement. In the case of the "Stevens CR", this is what it’s commonly
> referred to.
>
> PRD stands for Planned Residential Development. This refers to North
> Andover’s cluster zoning, (or PRD) by-law, which allows a developer to
> cluster houses close together in exchange for setting aside a piece of
> permanently protected conservation land. The open space is then typically
> named for the development, with the PRD acronym at the end. Here’s a link
> to North Andover’s open space plan, listing the names of these areas:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzzUaLZFJDl3WXhPS0R4RWljSEk/view
> It's strange and foreign seeing CR and PRD all over the place, especially
> for a member of the general public who looks at that and wonders "hmm, what
> does this space mean for me? Is it private? Is it part of a reservation? Is
> it recreational land open to public use?"
>
> Angela
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Stevens CR appears to be locally accepted abbreviation of "Stevens
>> Coolidge Reservation" which barely distinguishes it from "Stevens
>> Coolidge Place" (abbreviated SCP); both are used in official documents
>> of The Trustees of the Reservation.
>>
>> http://www.thetrustees.org/assets/documents/places-to-visit/managementplans/Weir_Hill_Mgmt_Plan_2006.pdf
>>
>> (Elsewhere, I would expect "Conservation Reservation" would be the
>> generic expansion.)
>>
>> Does PRD appear in a context where "Parks and Recreation Department"
>> makes sense?
>>
>> // bill
>>
>
>
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