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

[Nicholas Davidowicz]

You should expand it where you are sure this holds. The abbreviation
obscures the information too much.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 2:50 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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