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Committee backs ordinance to require adjacent property owners to maintain sidewalks in county right of way
Summary
The council’s engineering and transportation committee advanced an ordinance that would require owners or occupants abutting county rights of way to clear and maintain sidewalks and related features; committee members requested clarifications on scope, exemptions and enforcement before full-council action.
The Engineering and Transportation Committee moved Bill 16-25 forward with a favorable recommendation to require maintenance of sidewalks, tree lawns, curbs and private approaches within county rights of way by the abutting property owner or occupant.
Councilman Tanner and Skye Meaders of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning & Growth said the proposed ordinance is intended to bring county code into alignment with common municipal practice and give…
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