In what could be a devastating move for local goodwill, Kansas City will start enforcing fines against local residents and businesses who don't have their walkways shoveled.
Take a look:
At 8 a.m., the city can start issuing big fines for any remaining snow on sidewalks.
Shovel your KCMO sidewalk, or possibly pay $25-$100 fine
KCMO: Shovel your sidewalk or pay a fine
So, first the City made me move my car from in front of my house under threat of towing so that they could plow the streets. No that i planned on going anywhere, but they wanted it moved so they could plow. First I had to dig out my car. Then I had to dig out a spot down the block where I could park it. Done.
ReplyDeleteNext, the City plows the street in front of my house. They don't push the snow to the curb line. Instead, they throw it on to the sidewalk and create a 4 foot tall berm of snow encrusted with 3 inches of solid ice.
Now, under th threat of fines, the City is telling me I have to get that 4 foot tall, 50 foot long mass off the sidewalk where they put it. I can't put it in my yard because of the grade and elevation. So my choices are to leave it and face a fine; hire a contractor at considerable expense to remove it; or throw it back in the street and create a mess (not to mention that is also illegal).
Of course, the City's pattern and practice in past years was to ignore the sidewalk ordinance. And if they'd have warned residents this year BEFORE the storms rolled in that they would enforce it this year, I'd have intercepted those damn snow plows and told them where to push the snow to. But, in the tradition of reactionary governance that is KCMO, they can't think ahead about anything but baubles, convention hotels and the like.
Everyone considering a move to KCMO be warned. This could easily be you. I'm off to meet my contractor.
@607 Where exactly did you want them to push the snow? In the middle of the street. Quit your crying and grad a shovel or move! Nobody feels sorry for your woes of shovel your poor little car and sidewalk!
ReplyDelete6:07 As slick Willie said' "I feel your pain". You could always move to California where they give you an IOU instead of a tax refund and then raise your taxes to cover the IOU. Like Dick Gregory used to say "When your looking for justice that's what your going to find, JUST US.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great city. They plow your car in and call a wrecker. They plow snow over your sidewalk and you end up doing the work. Typical bureaucrats ...always trying to force the civilians to do the work. Next they will be charging a sidewalk snow shovel maintenance tax. And they can't figure out why folks are moving out of the city?
ReplyDeleteFirst off, lazy fuckers, they're talking about businesses, not homes. Second, if you don't want to mow your lawn, shovel the snow, etc., move into a fucking apartment. Third, if you didn't have the basic fucking common sense to not park your car where it will block snowplows, then you're just an asshole.
ReplyDeleteI want to know where 6:07 lives so we can see where the city deliberately pushed snow on the sidewalk and not to the curb, and where the pile is four-feet high and 50-feet long.
ReplyDeleteAnd again, he's got a lot that's 50 feet wide and he doesn't have a driveway to park his car on?
Tony, surely you can find better fiction writers than this guy.
I have to say I am happy not to have a sidewalk on my property.
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ReplyDeleteDrive around a little there are piles like that all over the metro area not just in KCMO that snow was pushed in huge piles over sidewalks
"Too fucking bad."
ReplyDelete"Boo hoo."
"Move."
These are just some of the responses of City employees and elected officials to any suggestion that they or the felons they hire make mistakes, use poor judgement, or that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Clearly positions of those with large egos, small intellect, and no integrity. Only 2 more years, folks.
1:11, come on smart guy. You obviously know who these "city employees and elected officials" are.
ReplyDeleteHow about naming some names? Tony needs all the "kickass tipsters" he can find.
Maybe one of these days, one of these "tipsters" and "insiders" might even get something right.
7:12- read the post. Curb line.
ReplyDeleteTry getting out of the 29th floor sometime and take a trip through some of Kansas City's older neighborhoods, Scarritt, Pendleton, Columbus Park, Indian Mound.
You'll see exactly what 6:07 is talking about.
Not 7:12, but I saw exactly what 6:07 was talking about.
ReplyDelete1. He lives on a cul-de-sac in which someone (he says the city) actually plowed while taking care not to block driveways.
2. He actually wants us to believe that the city picked up the snow, carried it over the curb line, then dropped it on his 50-foot long sidewalk, 4-feet high.
3. Notice how he's got a driveway but parks on the street. Smart.
4. Final lie: The city doesn't give a damn where you park on a cul-de-sac. The ordinance only applies to emergency snow routes.
The city did suggest that people living on residential streets park only on one side of the street, but nobody has been ticketed and towed for parking anywhere on a residential street.
Instead, they got their cars buried under snow because they were too damned dumb to park in their driveway. Punishment fitting the crime.
I live in a neighborhood off Barry Rd, near 169 Hwy. I live on a corner lot, so I have twice as much sidewalk as most people (my choice).
ReplyDeleteAfter the first snowfall I shoveled my sidewalks and several of my neighbors' sidewalks. Then the plows eventually came by and buried them deeper than the original snowfall. Then I shoveled them a second time.
After the second snowfall I shoveled my own sidewalks and several of my neighbors' sidewalks for the third time. And again, the plows eventually came by and buried them deeper than the snowfall. So I went out and re-shoveled my neighbors' and part of my own sidewalks for the forth time, but had to stop due to fatigue. Then I came down sick for several days. Now I'm told if someone calls 3-1-1 I'll probably get stuck with a sizeable fine.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the plow trucks eventually made it through my neighborhood, but I don't understand 2 things:
1. Why do they have to shove the piles clear up onto the sidewalks rather than the area between the curbs and sidewalks?
2. Why am I going to be fined after I shoveled the sidewalks 3-4 times and they're now snow-covered due to the plows?
Kansas City - A city that works for the elite and screws the regular guy.
Since you live "in a neighborhood off Barry Rd. near 169" who is going to call except one of your neighbors?
ReplyDeletePicture: I love a woman who can take a big load.
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