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Public Works details sidewalk criteria and $22.5 million backlog; city ties installs to broader capital projects
Summary
Public Works explained the city’s sidewalk evaluation criteria, prioritization process and funding limits, noting a $22.5 million backlog (about $5.7M arterial, $16.4M nonarterial) and stressing that sidewalks are most efficiently built with coordinated capital projects and utility work.
Public Works staff briefed the committee on how residential sidewalk projects are identified, prioritized and funded, and said that while ordinance standards require sidewalks in many contexts, funding constraints and the city’s capital program create a multi‑year backlog of projects.
Paul Zachary, speaking for Public Works, described the ordinance framework that requires sidewalks on arterials, parkways, commercial/industrial streets, collectors and on both sides of residential local streets that have curb and gutter. Staff described “critical sidewalk areas” (within a tenth of a mile of schools, parks, libraries, transit stops and other pedestrian generators) and said the director’s designee may require…
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