City-funded contractors have been moving through Denver neighborhoods, replacing sections of residential sidewalks, and leaving some homeowners frustrated.
“It’s the city sidewalk program, I did nothing to cause this,” said Lisa Whittaker, referring to sidewalk replacement work completed on her property at 6th Avenue and Humboldt Street last fall.
The work was part of a broader program aimed at making city sidewalks more usable and accessible. A contractor replaced roughly five concrete sidewalk squares in front of Whittaker’s home. But when she turned on her sprinkler system last month, she discovered the crew had broken multiple sprinkler heads, cut irrigation lines, and damaged one of her trees…