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Originally Posted by DMTower
That is exactly why it is so infuriating... many of the mid-block buildings are priceless which means Salt Lake may never be a truly walkable, intimate scale kind of city. Unless we raze entire blocks at a time and rebuild, any new mid-block access will probably be hap-hazard and off alignment (which means less visibility and less utilization).
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I don't really understand your statement. You make it sound as if blocks can't be split up and walkable with out having a strict, secondary half-scale grid. But surely they can. Mid-block (wherever that may be, certainly not strictly in the middle in many cases) connections can still be made around most mid-block buildings. Heck, it would give Salt Lake a more European feel if our blocks were split up with random web-like connections. Cities like London manage to be walkable despite a near-total lack of foresight and organization.