(A) Specifications and regulations for sidewalks are established to safeguard the public welfare, to ensure the maximum life of sidewalks, to provide uniformity in appearance and to provide for varying conditions and changing practices.
(B) Sidewalks shall be five feet wide and constructed of concrete. In commercial districts, defined in the zoning code, they shall be of sufficient width to extend from property line to curb line and shall be five inches thick of aggregate, as follows, or as may be from time to time specified by the Department of Municipal Services, one part dry portland cement or equal, two parts clean torpedo sand, four parts stone or of approved size, properly mixed dry and with water as per accepted concrete practice.
(C) The sidewalk shall be one foot from and parallel to the left line except as hereinabove otherwise provided in commercial districts. The sidewalk finished grade shall be as established by the city or conform to established grades of existing adjoining sidewalks, or as established by the Department of Municipal Services, normally coinciding uniformly with the grade of the curb at an elevation above the top of the curb of one-forth inch per foot distance from curb to lot line. From and to those points the sidewalk of above concrete aggregate shall be laid as follows:
(1) Upon sound and compacted cutout or filled subgrade foundation as approved by the Department of Municipal Services, subject to the contour of the sidewalk space and to the nature of the existing soil;
(2) The wet concrete to be thoroughly compacted and trowelled or floated to a smooth but unslippery finished surface, properly drain pitched to street;
(3) With acceptable expansion joints at approximately 40-foot intervals; and
(4) With such other specifications in harmony with the regulation herein established as the Department of Municipal Services may from time to time direct.
(Prior Code, § 97.052) (Ord. 1781, passed 4-22-1957; Ord. 2015-033, passed 11-10-2015) Penalty, see § 10.99