My ZIP code happens to be shared by two separate cities and there are a few websites (Github, I'm looking at you) that will fail the payment, registration, etc. attempt if you don't enter the municipality that it THINKS is correct.
Exact opposite problem at my former rental: Two different properties with different ZIP codes... but they had the same address on the same road, just a mile apart (different jurisdictions).
I lived in a house; the other location was a nail spa. Strangers sometimes visited thinking they were at the right address (they weren't) to get their nails'did (they didn't).
A lot of this is on the people doing the platting in the first place. I would note, for example, that where I live in Oak Park, when they replatted the suburb after splitting from Austin Township with a different grid than is used in Chicago and the neighboring suburbs that
1. They kept the Chicago grid on the edge streets of the village so that, e.g., 110 North Austin would be across the street from 111 North Austin and
2. If they had kept the usual new 100 at each block system, the north-south streets on the south end would have been 1200–1249 which would have been identical to the numbers of the next block south in Berwyn and Cicero so the last block on the north-south streets is instead 1150–1199.
Contrast the borders of Los Angeles which in some areas are almost fractal in their complexity (there are buildings which straddle the boundary between L.A. and its neighbors and many blocks where adjacent buildings are in different cities). For whatever reason, the powers that be decided that the incompatible address numbering between adjacent cities should be retained so you will have weird discontinuities in building numbering along a block depending on what city the building lies in. I remember my wife having a doctor’s appointment in a building which was one of those which crossed the border so it had two different addresses assigned to it, one for Los Angeles and one for Beverly Hills.
ProllyInfamous|5 months ago
I lived in a house; the other location was a nail spa. Strangers sometimes visited thinking they were at the right address (they weren't) to get their nails'did (they didn't).
dhosek|5 months ago
1. They kept the Chicago grid on the edge streets of the village so that, e.g., 110 North Austin would be across the street from 111 North Austin and
2. If they had kept the usual new 100 at each block system, the north-south streets on the south end would have been 1200–1249 which would have been identical to the numbers of the next block south in Berwyn and Cicero so the last block on the north-south streets is instead 1150–1199.
Contrast the borders of Los Angeles which in some areas are almost fractal in their complexity (there are buildings which straddle the boundary between L.A. and its neighbors and many blocks where adjacent buildings are in different cities). For whatever reason, the powers that be decided that the incompatible address numbering between adjacent cities should be retained so you will have weird discontinuities in building numbering along a block depending on what city the building lies in. I remember my wife having a doctor’s appointment in a building which was one of those which crossed the border so it had two different addresses assigned to it, one for Los Angeles and one for Beverly Hills.
dylan604|5 months ago
I'm thinking an opportunity was missed here.
dfxm12|5 months ago
stackskipton|5 months ago