Funding for sidewalks has been approved in Seattle, where some neighborhoods have rallied for years to have them built. But now some homeowners are opposed to the plans, as the new sidewalk will cut into their front yards, parking spaces and patios.
"After a decades-long push by some Seattle neighborhoods to get sidewalks, the city plans to install them in 11 tiny pockets - including Alki Point, where not everyone is convinced it's the best idea."
"The Alki Avenue Southwest project, which received the city's second-largest grant among the 11, would connect a quarter-mile gap in the sidewalk between Alki Beach Park and Beach Drive Southwest, enabling in-line skaters, joggers and pedestrians to travel around the point."
"Where the sidewalk disappears and a row of waterside homes begins, residents have long used part of the public right of way for parking, landscaping - even patios. And some are not keen on a sidewalk."
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