Tim, you are close. Minneapolis was zoned for a through street every half
mile. There are 8 blocks per mile in South Minneapolis (notice no 21st
street or 23rd street between Franklin (20th) and Lake (30th)). These
through streets were designated because they are on half section lines of
the land survey. These streets were zoned for wider roads (a lager
"set-back" from the center-line for buildings).
This makes through streets at 20th (Franklin), 26th, 30th (Lake), 34th, 38,
42, 46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 72, 78th (484). 28th Street and 31st street
were made through streets to ease the traffic on Lake.
The commercial development is the result of the street-car layout.
Franklin and Lake had cross town street-cars, 50th and France was a major
street car intersection. This access to transportation and the fact that
the housing developent around Franklin and Lake was higher density resulted
in the high commercial developent. South of Lake, the development took
place after Lake was established as a major commercial center. There is
intersection commercial developent at cross streets where busses (and in
some cases street cars) intersected with the primary street car lines.
(e.g. 38th and Cedar, 46th and Nicolet)
Franklin was designated as 20th and Lake as 30th before the area between
them was developed. At that time, the plan was 10 blocks per section--per
mile. Before most of the area was developed, the standard was changed to 8
blocks per section for streets (Avenues are at 10 blocks per section).
>Originally, South Minneapolis was planned with a "commercial" street every
>10th block. Thus we have 20th (Franklyn Ave), 30th (Lake St.), 50th (very
>commercial on the west side, at 50th & France, but less so as it moves
>east), and 60th (actually 62nd/Crosstown became the commercial one there).
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