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Putting Sidewalks on both sides of the street of 3 feet would be the prudent, economical and efficient use of city monies.
River Oaks has 3 feet sidewalks, Houston has 3 feet sidewalks in residential neighborhoods similar to BELLAIRE.
5 Feet is unnecessary and invasive of green space.
5 ft sidewalks used by Cities listed below as justification for 5 feet sidewalks in Bellaire is not sound reasoning.
Sugarland population 88,177 (2016) census
Missouri City population 74,561 (2016)
Pearland population 113,570 (2016)
Bellaire City population 18,593 (2016)

We have 4 foot sidewalks on our street and they work just fine for people to walk side by side. I don’t think there is a need for 5 foot just because other cities are doing it. I believe that West U has a good network of 4 foot sidewalks because they adopted a policy and stuck with it. The problem I see is that over the years different councils change requirements and the policy changes. Even the city manager said we need to have policy standards in Bellaire. I think they should stay with the sidewalk program. I am so happy that we got sidewalks in a previous phase of this project as they were very needed on a block that had some newer, some in terrible shape and some yards with none.

I wish this could be put to rest! Sidewalks were on the ballot, people voted for them, so there is only one surprise here and that is increasing them to 5 feet. I have no idea why the council would interject the idea of 5 ft sidewalks with all this sidewalk argument going on. Why don’t they just build the sidewalks already voted on at 4 ft and then change the standard?