Terminology
This term has many synonyms and dialectical differences, with some dialects and idiolects without a term for this area and instead using a circumlocution.
Terms used include:
- Berm: North Dakota, Indiana.
- Boulevard: Bismarck, North Dakota; Minnesota; Michigan; United States Upper Midwest; Winnipeg, and western Canada; Markham, Ontario.
- Boulevard strip: U.S. Upper Midwest.
- Curb lawn: Kalamazoo, Michigan; Elyria, Ohio; Miami County, Ohio; Greenville, South Carolina.
- Curb strip: New Jersey.
- Devil's strip or devilstrip: Akron, Ohio; Northeast Ohio.
- Easement.
- Furniture zone, also planter/furniture zone or landscape/furniture zone: a term used by urban planners, indicating its suitability for "street furniture" such as utility poles and fire hydrants, as well as trees or planters.
- Grass bay: New Jersey.
- Grassplot: U.S. Eastern Seaboard.
- Nature strip: Australia.
- Neutral ground: U.S. Gulf States.
- Park strip: Ohio.
- Parking: Omaha, Oklahoma, Midwestern United States, Western United States.
- Parking strip: Washington state, Oregon, much of California.
- Parkway: Greater Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast of the United States, Midwestern United States, and Chicago, Illinois region.
- Parkway strip: Austin, Texas; Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Planter zone: SmartCode/New Urbanist terminology.
- Road Allowance: Ottawa, Canada
- Road Verge: Australia.
- Roadside: Australia
- Snow shelf: Connecticut
- Street allowances: Toronto.
- Street easement.
- Street lawn: Ohio.
- Swale: South Florida.
- Terrace: Wisconsin, U.S. Great Lakes region, Midwestern United States.
- Tree belt: suburbs and residential urban Detroit, Michigan; Massachusetts.
- Tree lawn: Cleveland, Ohio; Terre Haute, Indiana; and other areas. (This is the standard, dictionary-defined term in American English; other terms are also valid.)
- Verge: England, New Zealand, Australia.
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