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For purposes of "traffic calming", urban planners (1 2) often make the roads in residential neighborhoods curved rather than straight. What if a developer were to simply use a space-filling curve to lay out his residential subdivision on a single ridiculously curved road?
Example subdivisions appropriate for the International Zoning Code's R1d single-family-residential zone: 1 (Hilbert curve), 2 (curve name unknown), 3 (Peano curve)
See also: Small intestine
@Southkraut: "Outmanoeuver"? A daring synthesis, as the cool kids say.
Exhibit A in 'how to make your local fire/ambulance/police department planning agency very annoyed at you'. Another problem is anything that results in a closure of a section of street will cut off a lot of people. Yet another problem is if this is put anywhere that gets winter conditions.
I suppose one could put in authorized-only cutthroughs similar to how divided highways do, though this would eat into the area for housing, and would require enforcement to prevent them from becoming impromptu shortcuts.
It's a loop, with one travel lane and one parking lane (which can be cleared in emergencies) in each direction. I don't see how anyone would ever be cut off.
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The town I live in has had two short sections of street completely car-impassible & blocked off within the past week. Not a problem due to the grid structure except for ~4 houses.
(One due to a water main break, and one due to a power line across the street.)
I think you are underestimating how often this happens due to the normally-relatively-contained consequences.
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