Worcester Sidewalk Snow Ordinance

Now I know why the City Council can so easily pass a sidewalk snow removal ordinance to ram it up the asses of city property owners... Only three of them have sidewalks to clear snow off of in front of the homes they own! But it gets even worse...

The only counselor with a clean sidewalk this morning also happens to be the Mayor. Konnie Lukes' house has a sidewalk that had been completely shoveled this morning, by 9 am.

Yes, boys and girls, I actually went out this morning, 21 hours after yesterday's storm had ended, and shot video in front of all the City Counselors' listed places of residence. From the video, I took these frame grabs.

The sidewalk in front of the Lukes residence on Hadwen Road was truly an example of how a sidewalk should be cleared off. According to the city ordinance that, if amended, will fine property owners $75 a day if they don't do it (plus snow removal costs), I'd say that the Lukes family saved themselves a few bucks.

Around the corner, however, we found that Gary Rosen's house had a completely untouched sidewalk in front of it...

Gary, you are SO BUSTED!

That's a nice solid sheet of ice, since nobody at the Rosen residence saw fit to obey the city ordinance to clear the snow within 10 hours of yesterday's storm ending.

Really, he's never going to hear the end of this!

The "do as I say, not as I do" principle is in full force here!

And this guy's a teacher, the kind of person who's very profession demands that they lead by example!

And, for anyone who might not know it, this year's action on the snow removal ordinance is to raise the amount of the fine. The ordinance is currently in force.

And then there's Phil Palmieri's sidewalk...

I hate to be the one to break the news to my own district Counselor, but the City has clearly instructed residents to place branches downed by the ice storm between the curb and the sidewalk, or else on your property inside the sidewalk... not on the sidewalk. So this is a double infraction. Not only is the majority of the sidewalk abutting Phil's property not shoveled, but there are also all those branches on top of it.

I can just hear Phil's plea bargain to pro-rate the fine because SOME of the public sidewalk DID get cleared.

Nah-uh. Nope. No dice. I've already gotten a comment from a reader who claimed that Phil "...NEVER, EVER shovels his sidewalk EVER!"

Well, at least this time Phil apparently did see fit to shovel from his front door to his driveway...

Amazing, isn't it?

Perhaps Phil doesn't understand the City Council's intent behind the ordinance to get the entire length of the sidewalk abutting his property cleared of snow, not just the section he has to walk to his car.

So, of the three City Counselors who actually have sidewalks in front of the homes they own, two of them are scofflaws.

Then there's the rest of the pompous asses who would stick it to the property owners in the city by forcing them into involuntary servitude under penalty of daily fines plus costs, but who, themselves, don't even have a sidewalk abutting their property, or else aren't the owners of the property they list as their residence!

How convenient is that?
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