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This approach changed following Worid War II. The 1950's started the highway era and automobile access <br /> became the predominant design feature for new development. Buildings started to be set back further to provide <br /> space for parking. They were also designed so as to appeal to passing motorists, with pedestrians frequently <br /> becoming an afterthought. New residential and commercial development started to appear on the periphery of <br /> town,often outside of the city limits. When the original highway was realigned and expanded,the pattern of new <br /> growth along the corridor was auto-oriented. <br /> The area surrounding downtown Pequot Lakes, what was Sibley Township, has developed in a traditional <br /> rural/recreational pattern. Most of the development was either farmsteads on rural roads or lake cabins. Old <br /> winding trails to lake cabins have been adapted to one degree or another as local roadways. Most of these are <br /> substandard in that they lack dedicated public right of way—they exist in a collection of prescriptive easements. <br /> As area development began to pick up in the 1990s,the signi�cant housing investments were transitioning out of � <br /> urban Pequot Lakes to where properly owners could have larger acreage and/or direct lake access. Sibley ' <br /> Township began to transform into its current rural/suburban nature, with suburban-style subdivisions <br /> interspersed throughout lands formerly used for agriculture or logging. Many lake homes were converted from <br /> seasonal cabins to year-round dwellings, with significant increases in property values corresponding with <br /> increases in development intensity. � <br /> This is the development pattern that was evolving at the time of the merger between Pequot Lakes and Sibley I <br /> Township in 2002,a decision that allowed both entities to plan for the character of the area's growth. <br /> The fourth incarnation of the original Leech Lake Trail is manifested in the Trunk Highway 371 Expressway which � <br /> was completed in 2017,just east of town. Those improvements were in response to increasing traffic counts as il <br /> well as safety concerns. , <br /> I <br /> 4 � Fage <br />