Carey
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They also saved taxe by narrowing the fronts of their homes by turning the ends to the street.* They placed private piazzas to the side and turned a negative to an asset--------the beautiful Charleston gardens & court yards.* I developed a whole community of these style homes and lived in one.Moonstruck wrote
This was my patio.* It is amazing how things can turn out when you save taxes.
My understanding is that the shotgun houses in New Orleans came about for the same reason. They were taxed based on road frontage width. The lots and homes in the poorer neighborhoods are long and very narrow.
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-- Edited by Carey on Friday 21st of January 2011 03:21:58 PM