Friday, June 1, 2012
A Video About Sidewalks
This is a video about sidewalks. I know, not very sexy, but I thought it would be interesting. Indeed, it was way more interesting than I thought it would be. I could have made a miniseries out of all the information I've collected! I'll spare you that, though. Hope you enjoy the 2 1/2 minutes worth.
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Interesting to find out that the builder threatended to file bankruptcy...give me a break. Is the builder a buddy of the City Council? Sad that our government has laws in place, yet picks and chooses to enforce them at a whim. I never really thought about how much a sidewalk does enhance your home. I just know that as a homeowner your stuck with the task of repairing it and maintaining it (in Idaho at least), luckily I live in a condo also. Either way, I'm sure I am paying for it. But for it to improve my home, its a good trade-off.
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving me the new way of thinking.
I feel similar to Kevin, gimme a break. It seems like installing sidewalks is what the developer agreed to do–payments on a contract. If you tell your banker you can't make payments on your house because you will go bankrupt, would the banker say "I understand Matt, don't worry about it, just skip it until the economy gets better?"
ReplyDeleteThis seems to be a familiar story... Would that developer going bankrupt ruin Bozeman's economy? They must be too big to fail!
Bozeman relies on the mythological, magical, California multimillionaire family that just blows all of its money and buys a "compact luxury home" because that's what Californians want to live in, tiny houses,deep in the heart of Bozeman. Everyone hopes they drive up property prices to increase municipal revenue. So, yeah, you can't enforce things until those 'fornians begin to migrate again...
ReplyDeleteOne thing I'll concede is that when the lots finally do get developed, apparently the sidewalks often get damaged and have to be replaced. But I talked to the state director of Safe Routes to Schools and he said that could easily be mitigated by piling dirt/gravel over the sidewalks. YES, it would block the sidewalk temporarily, enough to get the heavy excavation machinery in and out, but could easily be removed and, who knows, they may even find a better way of doing it. If the burden is passed on to builders to tear out and then replace the sidewalks, I'm sure they'll figure out a method. The underlying fact is that sidewalks are useless if they don't go anywhere, and with the way things are going, there will be no connected system for the foreseeable future.
ReplyDeleteIt is something that I see all the time and never asked why. It seems like such an easy fix but like everything else it comes with time and money that will soon fix the problem.
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