Your own personal landing strip.
Your own personal landing strip.
OP discovers river lots. Lots like this are an old design, that allowed everyone access to the river while giving you a decent amount of land. They are very common in Ontario, and such.
They are also a fucking nightmare if you're doing any sort of survey in the area, that requires land access because for a given area, you now have to negotiate with 350 land owners instead of like 30.
This seems a bit egregious for a lot, it's just over 50 ft wide and nearly a mile and half long. It looks more like a developer made the "lot" to develop the rest of the nearby homes then managed to get a house built on it.
I get it, but there's a logic to it being so long if you think about it: flooding. You want river access without risking your house getting washed away. As I said, it's an old lot layout method - like from the mid 1800s or earlier, with ties to how things were laid out in France originally.
Also, 'great for hunting' in the ad. Lmao.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_France
tl;dr It's all France's fault
Holy shit OP, you're underselling it with that pic.
I'm pretty creative at thinking on land use, no idea what to do with NINE linear acres.
Well, it's Louisiana, plenty easy to grow shit. Fence and forest it, hunk a bunch of chickens and rabbits out there? Sprinkle in a couple of tiny ponds? Setup a poker shack out in the woodsy area? The mind boggles.
"Honey? Can you grab some peppers out the garden?"
"Aw hell Mabel, those sonsofbitches are a half-mile deep in there and we ain't got 4-wheeler gas."
EDIT: Can't stop looking at this. 7680', 1.5 miles. You would have to have a 4-wheeler to get any work done out there.
You would have to have a 4-wheeler to get any work done out there.
You are missing the perfect opportunity for a small guage miniature train line. Just big enough that you can sit on it and drag a few supplies the length of the back yard.
That sounds amazing. Now I want the house...
A very long lap pool. Then use the building work to disguise the construction of your underground lair. If you can't build up or sideways, then build down.
I want to know how this even got platted.
I think the other commenter comparing this to the Quebec/French system of land division has it right. From satellite view, you can see the distinct shape of narrow strip lots perpendicular to the flow of the Bayou Lafourche. In the distant past, waterway access then was the equivalent of truck access from the Interstate freeways today: paramount for getting goods to market.
Honey, I'm just going outside to mow the lawn. I'll see you in two weeks.
You can very clearly pinpoint the moment where myself and most anyone younger than me lost all hope of ever owning a home. What the fuck.
Louisiana? I’m guessing that before the Louisiana Purchase, they had similar non-primogeniture-based inheritance laws to Quebec, resulting in properties being divided into ever-thinner strips with each generation.
Ah yes, my vegetable plot lots in Manor Lords!
You could build a literal infinity pool…
If it was in the right area, great for a shooting range after some earth moving.
Setting up a target and loosing arrows at obscene ranges accurately is fun though.
“Everything the sun touches, far beyond the horizon, is my domain. As long as you don’t drift more than 20 meters left or right.”