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Salt Lake City's large blocks and wide streets date back to the Mormon founders and their desire to create their Zion - each block is 10 acres in area, meant to support a family as a homestead with gardening and agriculture, with the wide streets providing ROW for irrigation ditches and also providing for wagon teams to turn around easily (i.e. without doing a 3-point turn).

These days, there are lots of interesting opportunities to develop alleys and mews within SLC's blocks, and the wide streets have proven to be a great resource for light rail.

by Alex B. on May 31, 2010 11:34 am • link • report

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