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Old Posted Nov 17, 2022, 8:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg View Post
Those lots might have been platted decades earlier.
right, hence my comment about lot sizes often getting "baked-in" from the very beginning.




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Originally Posted by jmecklenborg View Post
Such a situation pretty much never happened in the United States.
south philly packs in its rowhouses at a similar scale:

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9257.../data=!3m1!1e3

and with narrower streets than the liverpool example to boot.


but yes, generally speaking, SFHs packed that tightly together are a pretty extreme outlier in most of the US.
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