Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Help with mileage for a newbie :)....

> Actually, I grew up in the next town over, so I know it's for real. 
Pretty cool, huh? The funny thing is the city charter specifies horse>
trails> through all developments, so even all the million dollar
properties  are horse friendly.

O.K. O.K. I'll have to play my Ace card.... COASTAL BERMUDA HAY $2.00 PER
BALE...GAS $1.18 GAL. NO EARTHQUAKES, NO FOREST FIRES. PASTURE BOARD $50
PER MONTH. >eg<  Things aren't *all* bad here. :-)  But seriously, I'm
interested in your neighborhood plan.  

the *concept* of that development has spread out here a little, but the
builders and people didn't quite pull it off. My brother bought land
adjoining a development like that in Knoxville, TN.  All the streets have
horsey names "Steeplechase, Triple Crown, etc."  Each house had an extra
acre for their horse field.  They left a bridle path right of way through
the subdivision.  At first all the houses had horses.  Then, they saw
what 1/2 acre looks like when a couple of horses live on it.  Certainly
hurt the looks of their big houses.  Nobody mowed the bridle path and it
grew up.  Now, 10 years later I think there's only 2 houses left that
actually have horses and they managed to buy extra land.  It's a shame.

Now 600 acres of land near me is starting to develop. It has a trail on
it that goes to the top of Lookout Mountain and down, and then a few
miles along the creek. One of the new builders (who owns half the land
but probably is going to sell it in parcels) is a lawyer and they got
their first horse this week. I've been told they've been given my number
as "the horse info-lady".  First thing he asked my daughter was "where do
you ride?"  Anybody want to give me a place I could hook him up with to
help plan maybe a trail system through the area that could stay open as
it develops?  What about liability on the trail?  Does it become a public
right of way?  If so, can they still keep tresspassers from outside off?

Angie

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