Is Your Sidewalk Clear and Safe for Neighbors?
The dark and rainy season will soon be here all too soon. Walkers, joggers, dogs, and children on bikes and scooters frequently need to dodge overgrowth that encroaches on sidewalks. Do your shrubs or hedges sprawl across the walk or overhang the sidewalk’s edge? Do tree branches droop causing passersby to duck? Plantings grown so tall that drivers can’t see past them? If so – with autumn quickly approaching – it’s time to get out the pruners.
City Code requires property owners keep adjacent sidewalks, roads, and alleys clear of all obstructions. This means shoveling snow in the winter, raking leaves in the fall, and repairing damaged sidewalks. Encroaching shrubs and hedges must be cut back, and a minimum eight-foot clearance must be maintained above sidewalks (14 feet above roads and alleys). Vegetation that obscures an intersection at a distance of 30 feet should be trimmed.
The Laurelhurst Community Club, formerly the Laurelhurst Improvement Club, has been a long-standing neighborhood entity, serving the community since 1920.
LCC maintains a website which states:
LCC was established to foster the improvement and beautification of the neighborhood. LCC seeks to identify and address community concerns and to provide a forum to promote solutions by working with the community at large, other civic organizations, and government.LCC publishes a hard copy newsletter ten times a year (2 issues are combined), called the "Laurelhurst Letter" which is mailed to about 2,800 households. Costs of the newsletter are off-set in part by neighbors opting to pay $60 annual dues as well as revenue from newsletter advertising.
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