Lawrence Road

The Lawrence Road neighborhood (so named because Lawrence Road forms the spine of this long neighborhood as it stretches south from Camino Tassajara at the far eastern edge of Danville) is one of the high end tract housing neighborhoods where all the homes look similar enough that a visitor would not be able to find a home without the numbers of the address.

I came here for a little “dinner party” sort of thingy. The insides of the homes are very luxurious in an upper middle class sort of way—a way that I have had difficulty seeing myself following since I am still basically a Berkeley Girl at heart.

It is definitely a lovely neighborhood though. The homes are in the Mediterranean style with red or tan tile roofs and adobe walls—often with a bit of decorative brick work. They date from the 90’s and I’m sure they fetch somewhere in the $500 thousand to 1 million dollar range. Homes here have more than 3000 ft. of space as a rule and big back yards, often with pools.

If you head far enough up Lawrence Road you can still see an occasional barn and get a little sense of Danville’s rural past, before White Flight made it what it is today.

Of course the schools are great and there is virtually no crime.

It is pretty much your modern vision of suburban life.