All sidewalks that shall be hereafter laid or constructed in the City where the same extends to the curb of any paved street, shall begin at a grade on or as near as may be on a level with the top of the curb, and beginning at said grade shall raise toward the property line at the rate of one inch (1”) to four feet (4’).

(Code 1961, 9-1-1; Ord. 672; Code 2023)

No sidewalks and no front walks extending to the curb of any paved or curbed or guttered street shall be built against the curb, but a space of not less than one-half inch (1/2) shall be left between the edge of said sidewalk or the end of said front walk and the curb, which space shall be filled with sifted sand or asphalt.

(Code 1961, 9-1-2; Ord. 672; Code 2023)

(a)   It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1)   To build, construct, erect, or install any barricade, scaffold or other obstruction, whether temporary or permanent;

(2)   To move, leave or allow to be left any implements, tools, equipment or building materials except as may be necessary to load or unload the same; or

(3)   To leave or allow to be left or stored any unattended goods, wares, merchandise or the necessary display or showcases for the same; on any sidewalks or other public ways of the City.

(b)   Goods, wares, and merchandise, whether new or used, offered for sale by any merchant occupying a business premises abutting a sidewalk or other public way together with the necessary display or showcase therefor shall be conclusively presumed not to be unattended if placed upon such sidewalk or other public way so as to permit a reasonably unrestricted pedestrian walkway and if placed thereon for only so long as the business is actually open for the active conduct of business in the abutting or adjacent premises.

(c)   The proprietor of any business licensed by appropriate State agencies to serve food and beverage at retail and the premises of which abut any sidewalk or other public way, may place tables, chairs, bars, stools, or establish other types of seating areas on such sidewalk for the service to and consumption by customers of food and beverage. Such shall be conclusively presumed not to be unattended if placed upon such sidewalk or other public way so as to permit a reasonably unrestricted pedestrian walkway and if placed thereon for only so long as the business is actually open for the active conduct of business in the abutting or adjacent premises.

(d)   Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit planters, benches, or other decorations of reasonable size and in reasonable number to be placed in front of any business upon the public sidewalk or ways if such constitute neither a sight hazard to the motoring public or to pedestrians nor otherwise impede pedestrian traffic.

(e)   The City Manager is hereby authorized to grant, upon a satisfactory showing of need, temporary permits in connection with a building or moving permit, or during a remodeling or maintenance project, for limited times, to allow the owner or occupant of property abutting any such sidewalk or public way to use or encumber such sidewalk or public way of the City during the construction, improvement, remodeling or maintenance of any building. But, no such permit shall be issued until plans for warning and safeguarding the public during such period shall have been submitted to the City Manager and approved. During such temporary period, every effort shall be made to provide a temporary, safe walkway for pedestrians.

(Code 1961, 9-1-3; Ord. 3219; Code 2023)