[Vision2020] shoveling snow into the road

[Donovan Arnold]

You can disagree with the law, but it is the law. Any property owner owns halfway across the street and is required to clear it to remain a right of way for the public. You don't have to remove every snow flake, just enough for cars to get through or over it. 
   
  If you have too much property to be able to maintain you need to get less property or hire someone to clear it. It someone gets hurt because you didn't clear the way you are at fault. 
   
  Taxpayers can only afford to do so much for people. 
   
  Best,
   
  Donovan

Desiree <desiree at turbonet.com> wrote:
  I agree that people should not be shoveling snow into the street but disagree that I should be responsible for shoveling half of the road in front of my home. I have a very long lot and would need a tractor to accomplish it. What are all those city taxes for. I assume snow removal is a line item somewhere in there. 

DJ


-----Original message-----
From: Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:32:56 -0800
To: Janesta janesta at gmail.com, Paul Rumelhart godshatter at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] shoveling snow into the road

> By law, a home owner owns the sidewalk and the road half way across to the neighbors. If they obstruct it, by refusing to remove the snow, or piling more snow onto it, they are breaking city ordinance. Please remove all snow and ice in the public right of way in front of your house. You could be sued if some poor elderly slips on it, or a wheelchair gets stuck in it. 
> 
> Plus, it is just being a good neighbor. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Donovan
> 
> Janesta wrote:
> I can relate! Thankfully, I have a Subaru. 
> 
> I just hope the sidewalks downtown are shoveled tomorrow, so our elderly and disabled friends who have no car, can walk safely. *smile*
> 
> Janesta
> 
> 
> On 12/2/07, Paul Rumelhart wrote: I'm getting a bit ticked off when driving around after or during a
> snowfall, only to find big piles of snow that I have to navigate through 
> that someone piled in the road by snowblowing their driveway. Are we
> actually supposed to be doing that? Just let the city take care of it?
> It seems a bit dangerous to me.
> 
> If I was in my old rear-wheel drive car, I would have had trouble 
> navigating through the pile that covered the west lane of Mountain View
> by the intersection with White Avenue earlier today. It looks to me
> like the owner of the apartment building there on the corner dumped a
> bunch of snow into the road.
> 
> I'd rather not get stuck because someone doesn't want to take up a
> parking space or ruin their perfect lawn.
> 
> Paul
> 
> ======================================================= 
> List services made available by First Step Internet,
> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
> http://www.fsr.net
> mailto: Vision2020 at moscow.com
> =======================================================
> 
> 
> =======================================================
> List services made available by First Step Internet, 
> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. 
> http://www.fsr.net 
> mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
> =======================================================
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage.
> 

=======================================================
List services made available by First Step Internet, 
serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. 
http://www.fsr.net 
mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
=======================================================


       
---------------------------------
Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20071203/934eb199/attachment.html