[jyl]

Around here, every several years the city checks the condition of the sidewalk in front of your house and sends you a notice listing the things you have to fix. Since it is technically your responsibility to maintain the sidewalk and the strip between sidewalk and curb. Offers from sidewalk contractors follow. It is pretty painless as long as you have a few hundred bucks, and we have nice, smooth, safe sidewalks. But it did surprise me some.