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City examines retrofit rules for deep and shallow suburban lots to improve corridors
Summary
Consultants showed two retrofit approaches — for deep, big‑box style lots and for shallower commercial parcels — aimed at making suburban corridors more walkable and better organized while addressing parking and snowmanagement concerns.
The project team presented two distinct suburban‑retrofit tests designed to guide code changes on Fargo's existing commercial corridors: one for deep lots (big boxes and plazas) and one for shallower, frontage‑oriented parcels such as parts of University Drive South.
Why it matters: Many of Fargo's older commercial corridors were developed in the 1960s–1990s pattern of large surface parking and low frontages; the Growth Plan and…
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