Our home is on many different borders. It shares plans with a much older subdivision, though it has a distinct name. Its at the very end of our street, which is itself at the end of another street. Our neighborhood shares a street with the Belvidere Park neighborhood but shares a community watch with Oakwood Park.
And what is Oakwood Park neighborhood? Its kind of a loose collection of homes bordering the Oakwood Park on Brookside Drive. The homes comprising Oakwood Park fall into different CACs (Citizens Advisory Councils): the East CAC (of which I am current chair) and North Central CAC.
I found out today that another neighborhood to the west of us is organizing itself as Mordecai East (previously it was content to be grouped with Mordecai proper). There is also a neighborhood somewhere in-between known as Oakdale.
I find all the neighborhood groupings to be amusingly arbitrary and shifting. This is a good thing, as it reflects the transformation taking place in these neighborhoods. They are in the midst of creating an identity and these names reflect this reaching for an identity. I’m glad to be here participating in this identity creation.