Ask The Daily City: What is a Paper Street?

By Mark Baratelli
Occasionally our readers send in questions and sometimes we answer. A Mrs. Abathonia Greguar Tomstradafont from Maitland wrote in a year ago and asked, "I recently heard the term 'paper street' used in conversation. What is it? I never learned how to do an internet search. Can you help me The Daily City?"

Of course we can help, Abathonia!

Wikipedia says "A paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but does not exist in reality. Paper streets generally occur when city planners or subdivision developers lay out and dedicate streets that are never built."

We found and Orlando example below.

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