This week’s edition of richmond.com’s Why Richmond, Why?!? looks into what it takes to get resolution to citizen requests for a sidewalk on the 800 block of Kinney Street.

From the article:

New sidewalk requests are prioritized based on how they would best serve pedestrians in the city and then built when funding is available. There are currently more than 90 open requests that would cost more than $7 million to build.

The 800 block of Kinney Street is prioritized in the top quarter of open sidewalk requests and would cost approximately $100,000. The high cost would come from dealing with trees and a steep land bank in the construction area. The sidewalk may be constructed in the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1 and goes through June 2009, depending on the priority of other requests and the availability of funds.