[Keith in Iowa]

So it’s wrong to call an area with access controlled by gates a “gated community” based on property values???

It’s a community with access controlled by gates... W T F do you call that????

[Hulka]

I will wager you envisioned a community of mansions when you first heard “gated community.” That was the impression the MSM and idiots liberals wanted to generate as it played into the nonsense about the community being “exclusive” and any black person wandering the area would instantly be out of place.

Apartments and condos everywhere have gated entrances. . . but they are never called a “gated community.”

Tell me when, if EVER, a condo area was referred to in crime reporting as a “gated community.”

So why now? Why is this condo area (where the units are the same size of apartments) called a “gated community?”

The answer is simple for even the most simple-minded: the MSM and liberal race-baiters wanted to convey an inaccurate image.

If you are honest you would admit you thought something along the lines of “exclusive” rich area when you heard the term.

[Steely Tom]

It’s a community with access controlled by gates... W T F do you call that????

Self preservation?

[cynwoody]

Except for his typo, which I didn't notice until he pointed it out, Hulka's description is right on the money. Dinky townhouses densely packed with one-car garages. Recently constructed (some of Bing's oblique photography shows the complex under rapid construction).

Take a tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGeFAvzqyA (Uploaded Mar 28, 2010).

There is a front and a back entrance. The property is walled in. There is no gate at the front entrance (by the clubhouse), although the back entrance does have one.

You can see an annotated map here:

F is where the fatal fight occurred. D was where Martin was staying.