Editing Rotonda West, Florida (section)

==Rotonda neighborhood layout==
[[File:ISS-65 Englewood County, Florida.jpg|thumb|left|Rotonda West from the [[International Space Station]]]]
The Rotonda community is laid out into eight segments with a central hub, called the Rotonda Community Park and Preserve, that is a mile and a half circumference. Within the hub there is a playground, tennis courts, and a walking path, while most of the hub is undeveloped. There is also a designated area where people can pay to park boats, trailers, and RVs. There is also a water treatment plant next to the RV & Boat Parking.

The approach was considered modern at the time, inspired by the  [[Theories of urban planning#Garden city movement|garden city movement]] of urban planning, and incorporates a [[green belt]] layout throughout the property.

Parade Circle encircles the central hub, while Rotonda Circle and Boundary Boulevard encircle the outer edge. All three of these beltway roads are not contiguous. Rotonda Boulevard connects Parade Circle to Rotonda Circle and Boundary Boulevard, labeled Rotonda Boulevard North, West and East, and link the community to outside neighborhoods and surrounding communities. Rotonda Boulevard South runs along the western edge of Pine Valley and the neighborhood is undeveloped, connecting only to Boundary Boulevard and Rotonda Circle in the south.

Seven of the eight [[Subdivision (land)|subdivision]] segments have neighborhood names; Oakland Hills, Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Broadmoor, Long Meadow, White Marsh and Pine Valley. There is one segment that is undeveloped between Oakland Hills, which is the oldest, and Pine Valley in the southwest segment. This undeveloped segment was to be called Saint Andrews, but due to wetlands conservation efforts, was not established.<ref name="RotondaBook">{{cite book |last1=Alexander |first1=Jack |title=Rotonda: The Vision and the Reality : a Short History of a Florida Development |date=1995 |publisher=Tabby House |url=https://rotondawest.org/rotonda-west-history-book-now-available/ |isbn=9781881539070 |access-date=2 April 2024}}</ref> All but one segment, Broadmoor, incorporate a golf course between the houses, and Oakland Hills, Pinehurst, Long Meadow, and Pine Valley share a common street layout, while Pebble Beach, Broadmoor, and White Marsh incorporate cul-de-sac street layouts. The five golf courses are called Pinemoor, The Palms, The Hills, The Links and the Long Marsh, which offers 27 holes to play that are integrated into the White Marsh and Pine Valley subdivisions, while the others offer 18.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rotonda Golf and Country Club |url=https://rotondagolf.com/ |website=Rotondagolf |publisher=Rotonda |access-date=2 April 2024}}</ref>  Broadmoor neighborhood has twelve interconnected ponds for shallow watercraft, while the other neighborhoods have shallow canals that are linked to the other segments, and pass underneath bridges on Rotonda Boulevard and Rotonda Circle. Residents of Pine Valley do not have an inner connecting road to Parade Circle, while the other neighborhoods do, and the outer boundary roads, and don't connect Oakland Hills and Pine Valley in the southwest.

All of the homes are single-family [[bungalow]]s with an attached garage, and there are no multi-family dwellings or shopping centers within the campus.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the Rotonda CDP has a total area of {{convert|29.9|km2|disp=flip}}, of which {{convert|27.6|km2|disp=flip}} is land and {{convert|2.3|km2|disp=flip}}, or 7.74%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1261937 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212180344/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US1261937 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Rotonda CDP, Florida| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder |access-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref>