11-10-2018, 11:53 AM
(11-10-2018, 10:36 AM)MidTowner Wrote: I just walked downtown this morning. There is a fraction of an inch on the sidewalks in my part of the city, so obviously no property owners have cleared their sidewalks, but it was appreciably more difficult to walk with that trivial amount (I was pushing a stroller with two kids in it). Once I reached downtown, though, it was like a weight had been lifted off- all the sidewalks had been cleared. This was before 8:30. I was really impressed, and grateful.
As a property owner downtown who pays a special assessment on my property tax for sidewalk clearing, I'm happy to help. I was quite happy this morning to wake up and see sidewalk plows in action.
Of course, to be fair, because downtown is pedestrian focused apparently we pay for a very high level of service, multiple plows in action continuously during the storm in a fairly small area. Of course, thanks to the density of downtown, that's still really efficient to provide, and thus costs me about 5 dollars a year.