The Metropolis Council on Monday gave ultimate approval to changing the billing construction for Denver’s voter-supported sidewalk restore and development program to a flat $150 for greater than 95% of property house owners subsequent yr, taking out the extremely variable billing method outlined within the authentic measure.
Property house owners with giant heaps will nonetheless pay extra. The biilling system will add $3.50 per foot to the annual price for any property with greater than 230 ft of avenue boundary.
Semi-annual payments will begin hitting property house owners’ wastewater accounts within the first six months of 2025, officers say.
The modifications had been amongst a number of amendments to the ordinance that the council preliminarily accepted following a public listening to final week. Up for a ultimate vote Monday, these modifications handed unanimously once more as a part of the physique’s consent agenda, signaling an absence of controversy.
Nick Williams, the deputy supervisor of inner and exterior affairs on the metropolis’s Division of Transportation and Infrastructure, reiterated on the assembly that the sidewalk program relieves property house owners of the duty for paying for everything of sidewalk work in entrance of their heaps. That was the association earlier than voters overturned it in 2022.
The town is holding a working checklist of areas the place sidewalks are particularly broken and in want of labor, Williams stated. He encourages residents to report even their very own properties by way of the town’s 311 resident companies line to present this system a head begin.