by KHOU.com staff

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Posted on September 24, 2013 at 6:56 PM

Updated today at 9:35 AM

HOUSTON A 49-year-old woman captured on camera stealing from porches in Kingwood was ordered to pay a $300 fine and sentenced to one year deferred adjudication.

Linda Tatosian pleaded guilty to theft. Tatosian was identified and charged on June 28; however, she did not turn herself in until the end of July.

She was identified after KHOU 11 viewers recognized her and her yellow mustang in the surveillance video from Kings Lake Estates.

A victims surveillance camera was rolling when the crime happened at his house in a gated subdivision.

The video shows Tatosian ripping open packages and trying on a pair of shoes. She then attempts to open the front door before driving away. Minutes later, she was recorded near the front door of a neighbors house where she appeared to relieve herself.

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Most mornings and evenings you can find Terry Vanderheyden perched on the little slice of Florida that is her front porch on Ledge Avenue.

Vanderheyden left Florida four years ago, but you wouldn't know it from her porch, which sports a thatched umbrella stuffed into a pail full of seashells, bamboo wind chimes that make it sound like you're ordering pina coladas from a beachfront tiki bar every time the wind blows, and this thin stick that pokes out from the doorway that tells you if it's going to rain. More on that later.

"Porch" may even be a stretch. Vanderheyden has taken what is essentially a front stoop with a railing and stuffed two chairs with floral cushions, the umbrella, two small tables for holding drinks and solar-powered lamps. There's not much space, but a porch is what you make it.

"This is my oasis, my refuge from a long day on my feet," Vanderheyden, who works for a company that helps plan people's residential moves, explained. She has her coffee with the newspaper every morning on the porch, and a glass of wine, usually Pinot Grigio, every evening. Even when it's raining. "Not pouring, and torrential, but, yeah, I sit under the umbrella."

Vanderheyden is both an outsider and a native of New Canaan. She was born here and went to New Canaan High School. Her mother lives in the home the family built on White Oak Shade Road in 1951. Vanderheyden took off for sunny Florida with her husband in 1985. The pair opened The Monkey's Uncle, a bar two blocks from the beach in Ponte Vedra, on the northeast coast of Florida. She and her husband divorced, and Vanderheyden became a realtor. When the real estate market crashed in 2007 and 2008, Florida was one of the hardest hit states in the country.

"I lost everything and sold what I had left and came back to New Canaan, mostly because my elderly parents were still here," she said. Her father died last year, but she has lunch every weekend with her mom on the table in her front yard, near her pink flamingos.

"Gotta have pink flamingos," she said. Why? "Because they're fun!"

New Canaan has changed somewhat, but not completely, as new residents have moved in over the years, Vanderheyden said.

"I'm glad I lived there (Florida) for 25 years," she said. "It's different from New England, where people are a little more uptight, they don't talk to strangers. They don't have front porches in Ponte Vedra, but you open garage doors and sit in chairs in the driveway."

Vanderheyden said she talks to all her neighbors coming and going when she's out on her porch.

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September 19, 2013 City to hear final plat for Porches of Arbor creek

James Coburn The Edmond Sun The Edmond Sun Thu Sep 19, 2013, 01:34 PM CDT

EDMOND The final plat of Porches of Arbor Creek was recommended 4-0 this week by the Edmond Planning Commission for two additional blocks. Porches of Arbor Creek is located east of Saints Boulevard, north of East Second Street.

All of the utility work, roads and drainage has been completed. Lots are platted as needed, said Bob Schiermeyer, city planner.

Block 3 contains 16,050 square feet and Block 4 contains 18,886 square feet, Schiermeyer said. These blocks are only the area where the homes are built.

Caleb McCaleb is the homebuilder for developer Kip Ryan. The lots are 126-feet wide by 101-feet deep in property zoned for multi-family.

These two blocks are north of Rose in Bloom Way, immediately east of Saints Boulevard at the south end of the Porches at Arbor Creek, Schiermeyer said. There is no vehicular access through Rose in Bloom Way.

This item will go before the City Council on Oct. 14.

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When staff members at Fort Wayne Habitat for Humanity were looking for house plans for the agencys first suburban development, Fullers Landing on West Cook Road, they landed on models with front porches.

Megan Hubartt, Habitats communications coordinator, says its hoped that the style will enhance the spirit of community among the additions future homeowners, all of whom will spend 100 volunteer hours building their own and others houses.

We had seen other Habitats using the home models that have the front porch, she says. People liked it. The idea about that is getting people out of their homes and having them live together as each others neighbors and watch out for one another.

The model homes, which include a two-story and two ranch styles, have porches that measure 6 by 20 feet plenty of room, she says, for chairs or even a porch swing. The homes also will have a patio slab in the back.

Whether its the porches or the prices of the 120 houses that eventually will be built homes range between $108,000 and $116,000 prospective homeowners have been lining up since the subdivisions groundbreaking last month.

The agency is currently working with about a dozen families who could qualify for the development, Hubartt says. But more than 200 more have applied, just through the website, she says, with more picking up applications in person.

This isnt the first time front porches have served as a selling point in Fort Wayne area homes.

As early as 2005, Hamilton Meadows addition in Aboite Township, a conventional addition, was promoted as being a front-porch community by its builder, Delagrange Homes of Fort Wayne.

Renaissance Pointe, an urban in-fill redevelopment in the former Hanna-Creighton neighborhood south east of downtown Fort Wayne, also promoted front-porch styles in its new homes as a way of keeping the feel of the urban neighborhood surrounding it.

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