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Council seeks ordinance change to split responsibility for wide shared-use paths
Summary
Councilors agreed to draft legislation assigning the first joint/first 4 feet of a shared-use path to the property owner and the outer portion to the city to make sidewalk repair responsibility consistent as paths widen to 8–10 feet; staff directed to prepare a PL amendment for review.
Council members debated how to allocate maintenance and repair responsibility for multi-use paths that are wider than traditional sidewalks. The central proposal is to hold property owners responsible for the first longitudinal joint or the first 4 feet nearest the property (mirroring sidewalk responsibility) and make the city responsible for the additional width beyond that.
The chair framed the change as a fairness and consistency move: "the homeowner or property owner is responsible for the 1st 4 feet just like a normal sidewalk would be." Staff and several councilors asked legal staff to draft an amendment (an APL) implementing the first-joint rule so that wider shared-use paths would have a clear, enforceable split of responsibility. The council signaled consensus to move draft language forward and asked Tiffany and legal staff to prepare and publish the PL for future consideration.
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