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Today brought me to the Liberty Hills subdivision, just off Liberty Road and outside of New Circle Road.  This is a fairly typical 1990’s neighborhood.  Not a single street connected to any other street more than once, so I had to walk up and down each street.  The cul-de-sacs here are huge (I suppose they had to be built to handle a significant number of cars turning around) and resemble lollipops.

My gripes about street layout aside, this is a pleasant subdivision, with nice streetscapes and nice people.  There were a  few specific things that made it particularly nice.  As is often the case, the presence of trees in the tree lawn makes a big difference.  But there is a lot of texture in this neighborhood.  One nice example of this is the side yard and sidewalk pictured here. The side yard is set back further than the fence behind it.  Both the fence and the yard have texture too, in the form of a vine and landscaping respectively.  There are variations in both horizontal and vertical planes.  Beyond providing an example of how variations create a more interesting space, it also provides an example of how we can impact spaces after developers have left.