{"id":2045,"date":"2023-05-10T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2023-05-14T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:14:10","slug":"city-of-decatur-moving-forward-with-sidewalk-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/city-of-decatur-moving-forward-with-sidewalk-program\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Decatur moving forward with sidewalk program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur is moving forward with its adoption of a payment-plan setup included in its 50-50 sidewalk improvement program. But the payment plan will be limited to residential sidewalks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that commercial sidewalks tend to be larger and thus more costly, city Building\/Zoning Superintendent Curt Witte told city council at its latest meeting that the payment setup will be available only to people in residential areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to target the residential areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the 50-50 sidewalk program the city has had for years, a property owner pays half the cost of installing a new sidewalk and the city picks up the rest of the tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witte explained at a recent council meeting that he has had people tell him they would like to participate but cannot afford to lay out enough funds to cover the 50% match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Witte and city Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert worked out a plan that will allow a property owner to pay 25% of the cost of the installation, with the city covering the remaining 75%. Then the property owner would have one year to pay his\/her other 25% to the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city annually puts $50,000 into the sidewalk program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur is moving forward with its adoption of a payment-plan setup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8151543E25664D8CAD4C8AA3FB659FFF.jpg?fit=548%2C384&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}