The city's recent concrete drop in the village raises an interesting question. You see, at one point, the city required anyone making what the city considered major building reno to widen the sidewalks in front to meet Shining PATH Foundation requirements. Hence the patchwork (incrementalism?) you see on Village Parkway in front of a law office and the Jiffy Lube X-Fit. They showed their mercenary bent when the condo developer balked at wide sidewalks on the other side of the parkway.
Still, you have to wonder. The city dropped some concrete in front of the PNC bank on Mt. Vernon, a road in the Shining PATH's crosshairs and this was the Wide Side, as it was before. A few yards further west, in front of the Wells Fargo bank, we see a Narrow Side dropped.
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Hmmmm... Why didn't they do the Wide Side? Was it because it wasn't in a resident's yard? Perhaps they'll claim it was replacing what was there. Or maybe they'll invoke their long abandoned eco-creds claiming they didn't want to disturb those wonderful shrubs. And yet, rather than replace a fallen tree, which had previously been there, they decided to 'crete over the hole.
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