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Medina committee weighs lidar survey and program changes to tackle unsafe sidewalks
Summary
The Streets and Sidewalks Committee discussed buying a lidar sidewalk-survey system, changing the ordinance that now makes property owners pay for repairs, and collecting consultant bids and cost estimates to decide whether to fund city-wide repairs and hire seasonal inspectors.
The Medina Streets and Sidewalks Committee spent much of its meeting debating how to identify and accelerate sidewalk repairs after a resident reported a tripping hazard on Shorewood Drive.
Pat in the engineering department told the committee staff had explored a vehicle-mounted lidar mapping system that can detect surface irregularities down to roughly three-quarters of an inch. "It's a lidar system ... It can identify those tripping hazards down to, I think he said, 3 quarters of an inch," Pat said, and added the three-year subscription would be under $10,000 per year…
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