City Sidewalks
Homeowners are responsible
for maintenance and repair of sidewalks. In 1993 the City
completed a Transition Plan, required by the Americans’ with
Disability Act, which addressed public buildings and surrounding
property. The Transition Plan is designed to improve
accessibility for citizens on public rights-of-way that include
streets, bridges, intersections, sidewalks, trails and bikeways.
Any new construction and renovation to City property after that time
complied with the specifications required by the Americans’ with
Disabilities Act. The City of Norfolk worked with the Federal
Highway Administration to develop and implement a Sidewalk Transition Plan for
Public Rights-of-Way to comply with the Americans' with Disabilities
Act. The Mayor and City Council approved this
plan on February 21,
2006.
Some of the items included in
the plan below are a review of public rights-of-way to improve
accessibility, a proposal that sidewalk waivers shall be limited to
areas of no current or no future pedestrian travel, the procedure
for making accessibility requests, and a grievance procedure for
citizens.
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ADA Sidewalk Transition Plan
The map below outlines the
City's review of public rights-of-way to improve accessibility for
all citizens. Staff will conduct inventories of sidewalks and
trails to remove and replace broken or misaligned sidewalks that
could cause tripping, narrow sidewalks, correcting cross slope
problems and providing for ramps where needed. This inventory
of sidewalks needing repairs is to be completed over a nine year
period with one section in each ward to occur each year. The
areas of town scheduled for sidewalk inventory/review are outlined
on the map by year.
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ADA
Sidewalk Transition Plan Map - All nine years shown
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Sidewalk
Map for 2012 only
Section 22 of the City of
Norfolk code outlines the requirements and citizen's responsibility
in maintaining, repairing, or installing sidewalks.
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City Code, Section 22
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