David A Gibson
dgibso at uark.edu
Tue Nov 14 16:28:23 CST 2006
My sister lives in a "clothing optional" gated community. :-D Police, fire, and delivery are allowed entry. The guard at the gatehouse just keeps out the curious and unwanted. There are different designations of communities. One near us (NW Arkansas, USA) has been a "village", legally, and run by a council. No mayor, president, chief and so on. They are now going through the growing pains of becoming a "town" with a mayor and council. Elections and all that. I'll see if I can look up some more concrete info but it won't be today as I am headed out. David G. At 04:02 PM 11/14/2006, you wrote: >I think that on both points you hit the mark. I came from a suburb >of Winnipeg, Manitoba, called St. Vital. There was a time when St. >Vital became a city. I think it was population-based but I was a >child back then so I could be way wrong. I will research this some more. > >There is an oddity in Canada, private entities not part of the >adjacent town, city or whatever. In Toronto, one is Wychwood Park, a >private enclave that is responsible for paying its private >garbage-gatherers, snow-shovellers, etc. It is surrounded by >Toronto, but is somehow legally not part of Toronto. I can name >several other enclaves with this status within Ontario. I don't know >whether this status exists anywhere else in Canada, but I can name >several places of this distinction in Ontario. Here, these places >seem to be 100% white. > >They may or may not correspond to the gated communities in the USA; >in both cases they are inhabited by no one without large funds. Some >American on the list might contribute an opinion on gated >communities: are the city's police permitted to enter? The fire >department? Any non-resident other than a Fedex driver? Any person >of color other than the previous designations? Are there any gated >communities reserved for blacks or Hispanics, or are they reserved >for persons of pallor? Or, alternatively, am I woefully incorrect >about this, and the line of demarcation is affluence not color. Just curious. > >Arthur David A. Gibson Computer Support Specialist II University of Arkansas 232 Silas H. Hunt Hall 1 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 800-377-8632 (479) 575-4654 <http://www.uark.edu>www.uark.<http://www.uark.edu>edu The University of Arkansas Nationally Competitive- Student Centered- Research University