"The address issue has long been contentious in artsy Carmel-by-the-Sea, where residents once threatened to secede from California if they were forced to number their homes. They argued that the lack of addresses - along with other quirks, such as having no streetlights or sidewalks in residential areas, leading many to walk at night with flashlights - added to the vaunted "village character.""
"But the complaints about missed packages and mail-order medications, as well as trouble setting up banking accounts and utilities, kept piling up. And in the aging community - where the median age of 69 is nearly double that of the state as a whole - there have been growing fears about emergency responders being unable to find people in the midst"
Carmel-by-the-Sea will assign numbered street addresses to every government building, business and house, replacing directional descriptors and house names used for 109 years. City officials released a draft map of the one-square-mile town with proposed addresses that could be implemented as soon as May. Residents historically resisted numbering, citing the village character and other local quirks such as limited streetlights and sidewalks. Practical problems included missed packages, mail-order medication delivery failures, and difficulty setting up bank accounts and utilities. The town's median age is 69, creating rising concerns about emergency responders locating people quickly.
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