Houses w/o sidewalks

[iroast]

I was walking my dog yesterday and a nasty old hag yelled, "get your dog off my grass! and watch the duck! watch the duck! the duck!!". It's not my fault the bitch didn't have a sidewalk like the other houses around her ;( So, my question is: why do some houses on a block don't have sidewalks?

 

[iamme]

did you watch the duck?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

maybe to keep other people and their dog's sht off their property?

 

[captains]

town didnt want to spend the money to put them in

 

[NFS4]

We don't have sidewalks. The lawn just goes out to a very shallow 8" wide C-channel of concrete and then you're on the asphault road.

 

[StageLeft]

Our stupid street has a sidewalk on each side, but they're too thin for more than one person to be on at a time, and they are also slanted somewhat, because the yards are. End result EVERYONE walks on the street. Freaking morons who made that street...

 

[Kelemvor]

Lots of places don't have sidewalks. Just walk along the edge of the street by the curb. And as long as your dog doesn't sh!t in someone's yard you should be fine. Just ignore the old batty blue-hairs...

 

[Scarpozzi]

You should have stolen the duck out of spite.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Around my house. We don't even have curbs. Once the road ends, it ends. Usually in a drainage ditch.

 

[Queasy]

Lots of neighborhoods around me only have a sidewalk on one side of the road. Costs a lot less to ask people to walk to the other side of the road to use a sidewalk than it does to put a sidewalk along both sides.

 

[iroast]

oh well :/

 

[CrispyFried]

Doesnt the town own (sorta) a certain amount of your yard from the street? You can always call city hall and find out what your rights are.

 

[MagicConch]

Around here, the homeowner has to pay to put in the sidewalk in front of their house and they have to put it in when building a new house. Before they added that to the building code they didn't have to which is why some of the houses don't have it here. If someone does a complete remodel but keeps the foundation, it is not considered a new house from what I am told so they don't need to do it, while someone building an identical house from scratch across the street would have to do it.

 

[ATLien247]

What kind of neighborhood are we talking about here? Suburban? Rural?

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
Doesnt the town own (sorta) a certain amount of your yard from the street? You can always call city hall and find out what your rights are.

They have an easement if there is a sidewalk but if there is none then you are technically tresspassing walking in someone's grass.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
Doesnt the town own (sorta) a certain amount of your yard from the street? You can always call city hall and find out what your rights are.

Yeah, the city/county has responsibility for the first few feet of your yard for utility purposes. At least, in my neighborhood. Unless you live in a private neighborhood, the city/county is responsible for streets and the easement..

 

[apoppin]

our road doesn't have sidewalks . . .

or pavement
:roll:

i live on an unimproved county road . . . it's "horse property" and becoming quite "exclusive"
:thumbsup:

it costs $$$ for concrete sidewalks.

and stay off the grass

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
Doesnt the town own (sorta) a certain amount of your yard from the street? You can always call city hall and find out what your rights are.

They have an easement if there is a sidewalk but if there is none then you are technically tresspassing walking in someone's grass.

Not always true, even though there's no sidewalk, there can still be, and usually is, an easement.

 

[hevnsnt]

What was the duck doing?

 

[vegetation]

Around here, all new houses built within the last 10 years fronting public streets must have sidewalks, due to ADA requirements. Private streets are exempt I believe.
Even older areas must have a sidewalk retrofit master plan, just to comply with the requirements. And yes, it's expensive, costing millions of dollars.

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: bunker

Originally posted by: Ronstang

Originally posted by: CrispyFried
Doesnt the town own (sorta) a certain amount of your yard from the street? You can always call city hall and find out what your rights are.

They have an easement if there is a sidewalk but if there is none then you are technically tresspassing walking in someone's grass.

Not always true, even though there's no sidewalk, there can still be, and usually is, an easement.

Depends upon where the utilities are actually. Almost all the neighborhoods where I have lived have had the utility easements in the back....so it is the last few feet of your back yard where I live that is a utility easement.

Where the easement is does not matter anyway because the Municipality has the easement for UTILITY WORK ONLY and cannot control your property in any other fashion. Even if there was an easement on the front few feet of your lawn and no sidewalk someone walking on that portion of the lawn would technically still be tresspassing. Remember that an easement only grants limited rights to the Municipality and those are usually for utility work only.

 

[Toasthead]

weve got sidewalks everywhrere here. In fact in a few places ( bigger streets) we have the inset sidewalks where there is a patch of grass between the sidewalk and the road. Its nice!

 

[nakedfrog]

The front side of my house has a sidewalk, but we're on a corner and the side does not have a sidewalk.
The side without a sidewalk also seems to have an easement or something, as my shed is about a foot and a half over my property line, but there's another four feet or so past that to the street.

 

[scorpmatt]

you have a nice duck meal?

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Our stupid street has a sidewalk on each side, but they're too thin for more than one person to be on at a time, and they are also slanted somewhat, because the yards are. End result EVERYONE walks on the street. Freaking morons who made that street...

that reminds of some roads are 'fixed'...instead of fixing the bumps on the road, they just put up a sign that says BUMPY ROAD...