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Resident urges city to restore roadside pull‑over used for wheelchair access on West 10th Street
Summary
At the La Porte Board of Public Works meeting, resident Leslie Calvert asked the city to address a curb/sidewalk change that removed a pull‑over she uses to load and unload her wife, who uses a wheelchair. Staff said a code‑enforcement officer inspected the car and that the city had apologized and would follow up.
Leslie Calvert told the La Porte Board of Public Works on Feb. 25 that construction of a new sidewalk outside her home on West 10th Street removed a flat pull‑over she uses to deploy a wheelchair ramp for her wife.
Calvert said the area in front of her house at 1104 West 10th Street had been usable for years as a place to stop without blocking traffic, but that the new sidewalk raised the grade “almost 4 feet” and left the sloped grass unmowable and unsafe for stopping. “My wife happens to be in a wheelchair and is a stroke victim, and so,…
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