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POLICY FOR STDEWALK MAINTENANCE,
REPAIR, AND PLACEMENT
Purpose
To provide the procedures, guidelines, and funding for
ensuring that the Code of Ordinance with regard to
maintenance, placement and repair. Leading eventually
to increased safety, accessibility, and
attractiveness.
Process
1. Six year cycle
The plan works on a six-year cycle that once
completed begins again. Each year two sections
of approximately 14 miles of paved street will be
worked on identified by a number letter code
found below that will match to an area on an
attached map.
Yearl Section 1E & 1W
Year2 Section 2E & 2W
Year3 Section 3E & 3W
Year4 Section 4E & 4W
Years Section 5E & SW
Year6 Section 6E & 6W
Determination of sidewalks
The procedure for sidewalk improvements,
including determination of which sidewalks are in
need o intenance, placement, repair, and/or
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Department will survey the Sidewalks in the
Sections of the City, which have been
designated for improvements in the following
year. The inspectors will determine which
sidewalks are in need of maintenance,
placement or repair according to the
eriteria established in the policy. The
inspectors will identify the location, size,
and extent of problems associated with the
sidewalk.
b) The inspectors will input the sidewalk
improvement information into a database that
will include all sidewalks in need of repair
within that section of the City.
Each year a contract will be prepared based
on the needed repairs within the sections
designated for that year. City staff will
then determine, based on census information
for the designated sections, the approximate
amount of funding needed through the CDBG
program to assist eligible property owners
with their sidewalk assessments. This
amount will be included in the CDBG budget
for the following year. Costs for sidewalk
improvements not eligible for CDBG funding
will be assessed to the property and be
payable over a specified period. In the
spring of the following year the sidewalk.
improvement contract will be executed.
d) Notices will be sent to affected property
owners describing the sidewalk improvements
to be made nine months in advance of the
City implementing sidewalk improvements,
with the exception of the first year of the
policy when notices will be sent six months
in advance. Notices will include
information regarding CDBG eligibility and
Neighborhood Services Department if they
believe they are eligible for CDBG
assistance in paying for their sidewalk
assessment.
Property owners will have the option to
complete the sidewalk improvements
themselves, or have the work done by a
contractor of their choice, providing the
work meets City permit requirements. If
property owners elect to do the improvements
themselves, the improvements must be
completed by May of the year the contract
will be implemented in their area, with the
exception of the first year of the policy
when owners will have until July to complete
their sidewalk improvements.
f) Handicapped ramps will be constructed
according to City standards at all corner
where sidewalk improvements are being made
immediately adjacent to the intersection.
In that particular block. The cost of the
ramps will be funded through the City.
g) If a property owner objects to the need to
replace, install or remove the sidewalk
adjacent to their property they may appeal
to the City Manager
Criteria
Criteria for determining whether sidewalks are in
need of maintenance and repair for safety
reasons, or if certain areas either are in need
of sidewalks where they have not existed before,
or are in need of sidewalk removal where
sidewalks are no longer required, will be
established by the City Inspection Department.
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