Today took me to an area near Bryan Station high school.  Officially, this area is considered the Pinehurst neighborhood, but it is really pretty free-form, with the high school nearby, horse farms, part of the Cottages at Lacledes development, and lots of houses that.  Among all of this, there is one street of tract housing, probably carved out of a block of land as the land’s owner needed.  In this area, I found some interesting answers to a question I posed earlier about dealing with front yards.  Two homes had basically answered this by making them wild, though one contained bamboo and the other cacti.  Both were a kind of cultivated wild, a little beyond what might be allowed in your typical covenant controlled neighborhood but still interesting.  Very little of today’s route had sidewalks.  Comparing quiet Edgeworth with heavily trafficked Old Paris reminds me that some streets deserve sidewalks more than others.  Old Paris was treacherous on foot and to me, any street with bus stops should provide for pedestrian safety.  Alas, like many areas like it, its hard to imagine sidewalks getting a lot of use (and I wonder if the bus stops get much use themselves).

Good: Front yards getting out of the box
Bad: Lack of sidewalks on Old Paris.