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   From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "Clark F Morris"> wrote   
   > I was assuming that people who live up to a mile away from the strip   
   > mall or strip mall complex would walk to it some of the time.  However   
   > my complaint is that it sometimes can be almost impossible to walk   
   > between two adjacent strip malls so that you have to drive from one to   
   > the other.  In the Davidson Avenue example I gave, it was awkward to   
   > walk from the office complex where I worked to the Holiday Inn next   
   > door.  It at least wasn't so bad that you were forced to drive there   
   > if you wanted to go to lunch.   
      
   The building owners purposely block the ends of the parking lot to keep   
   motorists from using the parking lot as a drag strip getting from one place   
   to the other.   
   Mostly they use lanscaping and maybe some curbed green area with a swale to   
   do it.   
   I've seen some with openings and a sidewalk for pedestrians.   
   Alot of this has to do with the zoning/building/policing regulations of the   
   community.   
      
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