Today took me to an area off Chilesburg road, officially part of the Anderson Property neighborhood and a subdivision called Still Meadow.  This is a new neighborhood with larger homes.  The neighborhood has aged well in these critical early years, and benefits from a degree of visual variety that lower-end tract neighborhoods don’t get including an expanded pallet of siding colors.  This area also manages to fit in some townhouses, which are amazingly in the 2,500 square foot range.  The houses and lots are large and there is a lot of interstitial space (sometimes programmed as greenspace or park), including some interesting areas behind Ridge View that must border Jacobson Park but which are too large to belong to the neighborhood.  All this space makes this neighborhood genuinely quiet.

This neighborhood repeats a common Lexington pattern of dead-end streets that look prepared to connect somewhere else…someday.  Here (as elsewhere) these short segments get taken over with uses, in one case here,  turned into a little playground.  This neighborhood also has it’s own small park, complete with exercise circuit.

Sometimes it seems like subdivisions get features from their developer that are showy but that probably don’t add value, and the water feature at the entrance fits this well.  It would work in a backyard, but it’s too easy to drive by without noticing and not robust enough to be played upon.

The good: Visual diversity.

The bad: Too young to have much personality.