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Winter attacks! New sidewalk-clearing law focuses on fees, not jail Published on Dec 16th, 2010 27 comments Unshoveled sidewalks like this one on Water Street were common last winter. Officials hope the new ordinance will prevent a repeat. FILE PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE No one teaches a lesson quite like...
Unenforcable: Unshoveled sidewalk cases thrown out Published on Mar 16th, 2010 11 comments Unshoveled sidewalks like this one on Water Street were common this winter. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Even though snow blocked sidewalks all over town for weeks following major snowstorms in what was a...
Snap: Shipping out the snow Published on Feb 19th, 2010 4 comments As a new winter storm veers eastward and amid a multi-day mop-up operation of past storms, a City pickup truck hauls a load of snow west on the Downtown Mall, as photographed at 9:32am Friday,...
5 citations: Charlottesville Police begin enforcing citizen snow removal Published on Feb 17th, 2010 49 comments Where the sidewalk ends: Water Street on February 17, just past the federal courthouse. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Charlottesville Police have gotten tough on businesses and individuals who have not...
Mo' snow: Sidewalks clearer in Jan than 'snowpocalypse' Published on Jan 29th, 2010 22 comments Three weeks after Snowpocalypse, this sidewalk at the major intersection of Ridge and West Main was impassable in a wheelchair. PHOTO BY KEVIN COX For weeks after December’s massive volume of...
Reluctant police: City won't enforce its sidewalk law Published on Jan 12th, 2010 33 comments Try navigating this sidewalk in a wheelchair January 7 at the busy intersection of Ridge and Water streets. PHOTO BY KEVIN COX More than three weeks after the snow of the new century,...
City forgives: Charlottesville delays sidewalk enforcement Published on Dec 22nd, 2009 71 comments Unwilling to battle the snow left unshoveled by artists, a pedestrian braves Market Street at 1:21pm Tuesday. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER "Wouldn't it be great," says pedestrian advocate Kevin Cox, "if...