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dfiler t1_j3sazh0 wrote

Reply to comment by GottaWanna in Is there a way to effectively complain to the city to have this removed from the curbs around my neighborhood? They are old and rusty and all they do there is pop peoples tires. by Strong-Lawfulness805

Are you sure your property line stops before the sidewalk? I was under the impression that Pittsburgh property extends to the street center line. Of course, there is a public right of way and easements involving streets, sidewalks, street trees, etc.

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GottaWanna t1_j3td1zv wrote

I believe that’s how my parents’ house is in rural PA, but I had mine surveyed during a neighborly dispute and it ends at my retaining wall, behind the sidewalk. So everywhere is probably different. Possibly even within the city.

Side note, I used to talk shit about people who walk on the road when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk along the street, until I started going for walks in my neighborhood. You don’t know street to street if you’re going to get a walkable sidewalk, or any sidewalk at all. Then you get a random post-war street in places like Marshall-Shadeland (Ridgeland and Newhampshire drives , and Ingram to note) with random to no sidewalk at all like it’s Pleasant Hills. So now, I have an understanding of the street walking in certain situations. But that also had me wondering about the ownership of sidewalks. I bet the streets I mentioned own at least out to the road. So who made it okay to have no sidewalk when planning these?

Overall, I bet it’s an old oversight. They were probably officially part of city infrastructure at one time, until they realized they wouldn’t be able to legitimately maintain them.

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