Who determines which end of the street is number 1? Is it also the same person who decides which side of the street is odd vs even?

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Had the thought pop into my head randomly the other day. I’m assuming this is a town planning thing, but is there any sort of a guideline for making these decisions?

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Answer 1

I have no idea who/how the decision is made, but most places I’ve ever been have odd/even uniformly on the same side of the street based on the direction the street runs where it starts (i.e., the lowest number). This does lead to some weird numbering for streets that make a lot of twists & turns, but for the most part it’s pretty uniform. That said, it can also be very confusing if the street moves from one polity to another and they use very different numbering schemes, suh that (for example) #214 in one town is next to #515 in the next town over, yet they are side-by-side…