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...it varies widely by state in the US ...more variety along the eastern 
seaboard and gulf where various nationalities influenced early conventions 
...less variety in the west where the fed had more of a hand in 
standardizing governmental entities ...here we just had an election where 
the property owners in an unincorporated area of the county had petitioned 
the state legislature to recognize us as a separate government entity from 
that of Palm Beach County ...the county government is effectively run by 
developers who were doing everything they could, legally and illegally, to 
break the original property covenants that didn't allow anything less than 
ten acre homesites in Loxahatchee Groves ...the developers want to buy up 
the property and put in much higher density housing ...the everglades to our 
immediate west creates a finite limit on available property and thus 
developable land is immensely valuable here.

...as for art's question re gated communities, anti-discrimination laws make 
it virtually impossible to create or maintain a racially pure community here 
...such communities are of course limited to those who can afford them and 
increasingly, that includes larger numbers of non-white ethnicities as they 
benefit from greater participation and success in our economic system ...in 
point of fact, if you went looking for racially segregated communities, it 
would be among the poorest communities that you would find them, not the 
richest simply because all too often the rule of law doesn't penetrate very 
far there.

William Hindman

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From: "David A Gibson" <dgibso at uark.edu>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Useful Lists


> 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
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