VIEWPOINT | A modest proposal: incremental development districts

Guest column by Boyd McPeek

A map from 1902 shows a block of North Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. This block had a bakery, grocery, feed store, office, lumber yard, a candy company, rooms to rent, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, another grocery, carpet store and an office with rooms above (still in use). The core of the city was and still is laid out in 50 foot by 150 foot parcels w…