The Neighbors at Half Moon Lake

Half Moon Tracts

Nov 29, 2007

It would appear that the west side of Half Moon Lake was originally platted in 1966 as 32 separate tracts of land. Today the look is somewhat different with many of those original tracts divided, some, more than once. (There is even a recently built home over a drainage easment on the corner of Timberwood and Whippoorwill.) Some of these tracts are zoned for residential use and some still hold an agricultural zoning that allows agriculture uses.

Today, there exist 21 properties on Timberwood Drive, there exist 16 properties on Whippoorwill Drive and there exist 7 properties on Willowdale Rd. of the original plat of Half Moon Tracts. So instead of 32 original tracts, there are 44 today. Also included is a vacant tract of land off of Whippoorwill that has not been assigned an address with an access point between 5815 & 5825 Whippoorwill.

Most tracts lie in a Special Flood Hazard Area, so designated by FEMA which means flood insurance is mandatory on our homes and personal property.

There is a mixture of single family conventional homes and mobile/manufactured homes. We even have a log home in the neighborhood. Some properties have multiple dwellings. Our roads are paved and all streets are serviced by Tampa Electric however all streets do not have street lights. Timberwood Drive is one of them.

This area has wildlife that you may not see in other areas. We have red-tailed hawk, gopher tortoise and wading birds like heron and egret. Ocassionally you will see a sand-hill crane or two. From large to small birds, there are peacocks and hummingbirds.

Native trees from cypress and maple to sweetgum and wax myrtle dot the landscape. Native orchids
hide in the shade of oaks and expose themselves in the sunny prairie. Pines sway in the summer breezes.