pickleberry
New Member
Hi all
I live in a recently constructed condo. As part of the project, the developer reconstructed all the sidewalks around the building using a pale concrete, and added planters with coloured bricks between them. All in all, a nice job.
In the past few weeks there has been construction on the street and contractors needed to dig through the sidewalk to make their repairs to pipes below.
They have now finished their work - but sadly they have filled in their (sizeable) holes in the sidewalk using black tarmac, and have not done a good job of it - it's uneven and messy. Several of the coloured bricks between the planters are missing and have been filled in with the tarmac.
It's quite a sizeable chunk of sidewalk that has been 'replaced', and as it's right at a corner it really does make the street look poor and messy. It wastes the investment our developer put into the street to improve the sidewalk which is used by the entire neighbourhood.
Does anyone know if the city/contractor has an obligation to repair the sidewalk to the standard of before - bearing in mind the sidewalk before was in perfect condition and was less than 18 months old?
It seems such a shame as the sidewalk was in such good condition, and now it's a total mess and the flaky tarmac will need regular maintenance.
Thanks
I live in a recently constructed condo. As part of the project, the developer reconstructed all the sidewalks around the building using a pale concrete, and added planters with coloured bricks between them. All in all, a nice job.
In the past few weeks there has been construction on the street and contractors needed to dig through the sidewalk to make their repairs to pipes below.
They have now finished their work - but sadly they have filled in their (sizeable) holes in the sidewalk using black tarmac, and have not done a good job of it - it's uneven and messy. Several of the coloured bricks between the planters are missing and have been filled in with the tarmac.
It's quite a sizeable chunk of sidewalk that has been 'replaced', and as it's right at a corner it really does make the street look poor and messy. It wastes the investment our developer put into the street to improve the sidewalk which is used by the entire neighbourhood.
Does anyone know if the city/contractor has an obligation to repair the sidewalk to the standard of before - bearing in mind the sidewalk before was in perfect condition and was less than 18 months old?
It seems such a shame as the sidewalk was in such good condition, and now it's a total mess and the flaky tarmac will need regular maintenance.
Thanks