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Leisure World is a gated, 55+ adult age restricted community located on a county island, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.[1]

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  1. 35 relations: Age-restricted community, Ambulance, Area codes 602, 480, and 623, Arizona, Ballroom, Billiard room, Board of directors, Building inspection, Condominium, County, County island, Daylight saving time, Federal Information Processing Standards, Fire department, Gated community, Golf, Handicraft, Health club, Homeowner association, Local government, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Maricopa County, Arizona, Mesa, Arizona, Mountain Time Zone, Municipality, Performing arts, Pickleball, Rural Metro, Shuffleboard, Single-family detached home, Swimming pool, Tennis court, U.S. state, Woodworking, ZIP Code.

  2. 1973 establishments in Arizona
  3. Gated communities in Arizona
  4. Populated places established in 1973
  5. Populated places in Arizona

An age-restricted community is a residential community, often gated, that legally discriminates on the basis of age to limit residency to a majority fraction of older individuals—typically 80% over a set age.

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Ambulance

An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals.

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Area codes 602, 480, and 623

Area codes 602, 480, and 623 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for most of the Phoenix metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Ballroom

A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building, the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls.

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Billiard room

A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public billiards tables; see billiard hall.).

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Board of directors

A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Building inspection

A building inspection is an inspection performed by a building inspector, a person who is employed by either a city, township or county and is usually certified in one or more disciplines qualifying them to make professional judgment about whether a building meets building code requirements.

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Condominium

A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners.

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County

A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL.

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County island

A county island is a small or large portion of an unincorporated area that is within the jurisdiction of a county, usually surrounded by adjacent areas that are incorporated into a municipality.

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Fire department

A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other rescue services.

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A gated community (or walled community) is a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Handicraft

A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc.

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Health club

A health club (also known as a fitness club, fitness center, health spa, weight room and commonly referred to as a gym) is a place that houses exercise equipment for the purpose of physical exercise.

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Homeowner association

A homeowner association (or homeowners' association, abbreviated HOA, sometimes referred to as a property owners' association or POA), or a homeowner community, is a private association-like entity in the United States, Canada, the Philippines and certain other countries often formed either ipso jure in a building with multiple owner-occupancies, or by a real estate developer for the purpose of marketing, managing, and selling homes and lots in a residential subdivision.

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Local government

Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.

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Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is the law enforcement agency that serves Maricopa County, Arizona, and is the largest sheriff's office in Arizona.

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Maricopa County, Arizona

Maricopa County is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Mesa, Arizona

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

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Mountain Time Zone

The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when standard time (UTC−07:00) is in effect, and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time (UTC−06:00).

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.

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Performing arts

The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.

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Pickleball

Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two players (singles) or four players (doubles) use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction.

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Rural Metro

Rural Metro Fire, founded in 1948, is an American private fire department that provides fire protection and emergency medical services to individual homeowners and commercial businesses in unincorporated locations throughout the United States, primarily under a subscription-based model.

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Shuffleboard

Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area.

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Single-family detached home

A single-family detached home, also called a single-detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or separate house is a free-standing residential building.

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Swimming pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.

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Tennis court

A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Woodworking

Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

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ZIP Code

A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS).

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See also

1973 establishments in Arizona

Gated communities in Arizona

Populated places established in 1973

Populated places in Arizona

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_World,_Arizona