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Minimum street widths

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Minimum street widths

Variations in the width of city thoroughfares led to government intervention to get consistency. In 1867 the Municipal Corporations Act prescribed minimum widths for streets and alleys.

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Adrian Humphris, Streets and lighting – Street standards and planning, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24479/minimum-street-widths (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Adrian Humphris, published 6 April 2010.