Form follows function on the sidewalk

Walking up and down the sidewalk along the southern edge of the property at 18th and Rhode Island, I was pondering how we could overcome the challenge Tree raised... group decisions making, what to plant and where. I noticed that the paved squares of the sidewalk created an accurate grid and was reminded of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's design for the Kluczynski Federal Building and Plaza in Chicago (and repeated in Toronto as TD Centre). The entire plaza was laid on 6 foot square pavers, creating a grid, and every steel beam lines up exactly with the seams in the pavers in the plaza. It's as if you can walk on the graph paper that he used to design the complex, and I thought it was pretty cool. (You can sorta see this in the satellite view of the plaza).

Anyway, I thought it would be useful to create a similar grid of the property. The sidewalk blocks are 3 ft square (except for a few at the SE corner) and the garden blocks are 1 ft. square. This could be a fun too, kinda like playing battleship.

Here's the online version of the site grid if you'd like to use it to collaborate on the plan, post a comment and lemme know.