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a CASE NUMBER: 1363_82 APPLICANT. Harry Schroeder Page 2 items are as follows: Access and Traffic a, The Average Daily Traffic (ADT) at the time of the most recent count in 1979 was 9,150 vehicles, This represents the average number of vehicles traveling in both directions in a 24 hour period. This number is approximate to AB's counts on other typical county roads within the City. More heavily traveled county roads are in the vicinity of 16,000 The county roads and major local thoroughfares in the Metropolitan Area commonly operate at 12,000 vehicles on an average daily basis, b, Hamline Avenue is a mid - section line county road. when the land was initially opened for settlement in the first half of the 19th Century, the government (state, county, or township) reserved the right to construct roadways on the section lines and mid - section lines for the purpose of providing public access to the individual homesteads. Each homesteader, as you will recall, if he properly homesteaded the property under the Homestead Act, received a patent (the first deed from the government to the homesteader if he occupied and i.mgroved the land over a period of five years) . Thus, each 160 acre tract measuring one-half mile by one -half mile was bounded by section lines which is the boundary of a one square mile tract (or mid - section lines). On these lines, the government reserved the right to the use of a two rod strip ( 3 3 feet) on either side of the line for roadway purposes. This is how Hamline Avenue came into being This too, is the basis for the Ramsey County roadway systems with County Road A, A -, B, B -2, etc. all being placed on section lines or mid - section lines at half mile intervals. Likewise, north -south routes are located on such a onb -half mile grid pattern at locations such as Cleveland# Fairview, Snelling, Hamline, Lexington, Victoria, Dale Street, western, and Rice Street, c. As the township developed, smaller parcels of land were sold off with frontage on these 66 foot wide rights -of -way. Developing residential lots on such roadways had the advantage of not having to develop and pay for minor streets within the 160 acre tracts. Thus, such homeowners had the advantage of "free" frontage where the value of the lot did not have to include the development costs of the roadway itself. The disadvantage to this method of development was obviously that