To preserve and protect

Oklahoma City has a dozen or so Urban Conservation Districts, one of which was created last month to include the neighborhood into which I'm buying. (Yes, I'm moving into the city, and yes, this was disclosed to me before signing the papers.) This district is so new that they haven't posted the rules and regulations on the online Municipal Code site, but I read the specs on some of the others, and so far as I can tell, it's the functional equivalent of an Historical District, without having any individual buildings which are defined as Historic.

In other words, now and forevermore, where I live will look like — or is supposed to look like — a typical neighborhood of the immediate post-World War II era. This has its advantages: for one thing, nobody is going to tear down a house and replace it with a double-wide McMansion too big for the lot. It also means that any improvements made have to be consonant with the character and the period of the neighborhood, which may limit the nature of those improvements in the future.

Now to find a '51 Kaiser to park in the driveway (not in the yard).

Posted at 7:47 AM to Surlywood