Dead ends and/ or Firegates were "fashionable" in at least the '80s but Dave Mumford, the Traffic Engineer in the early '90s had a Car is King mentality. He yanked the existing ones and denied petitions for new ones. He left under a lot of pressure and we have slowly evolved to where we are now with Fire gates having limited approval in special cases such as Raspberry between Minnesota and Arctic Blvd on the South side.  Fairview in the early '90s benefitted from a combination of Community Policing and Traffic Calming in an effort to address rampant drug dealing and crime.  The traffic calming infrastructure endured, we are now circling back towards Community Policing!