I wanted the City to name it Love Lane - after the Love brothers, who owned the land and built a dozen or so identical semi's there in 1908. The first owner of my place paid $1,800 for it!
We once had a resident's meeting in the laneway. The city was expropriating it, to have it paved properly, with drainage and lighting put in. One or two of the older residents said they remembered how, back in the 1960's, every property owner who bordered the lane had to pay an annual upkeep fee. In those days residential populations were less transient, I suppose, and they could hold people to account. So easy to lose sight of how social changes can affect the way we define space.
