It was financed by assessments on adjoiningproperty owners for the "improvements" of paved streets and utilities, a practice that met with violent resistance but proved profitable in the end.
During this tour Ms. Farrar explained to Mr. Norman that she and the other Yorkshire property owners had investigated the possibility of selling only the house and about three acres, leaving the remaining acreage for development in conjunction with acreage in an adjoiningproperty (Yonder Lea property).