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Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, planned the layout in the " Plat of the City of Zion " ( intended as a template for Mormon towns wherever they might be built ).
In his plan the city was to be developed into 135 lots.
However, the blocks in Salt Lake City became irregular during the late 19th century when the LDS Church lost authority over growth and before the adoption of zoning ordinances in the 1920s.
The original blocks allowed for large garden plots, and many were supplied with irrigation water from ditches that ran approximately where modern curbs and gutters would be laid.
The original water supply was from City Creek.
Subsequent development of water resources was from successively more southern streams flowing from the mountains to the east of the city.
Some of the old irrigation ditches are still visible in the eastern suburbs, or are still marked on maps, years after they were gone.

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