Overgrown sidewalks frustrate North City neighbors | St. Louis Magazine

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There are only two blocks between the two-family home Perry and her husband gut-rehabbed on Palm Street and her kids’ charter school. The problem is the sidewalks.

In Old North—and indeed, throughout many swaths of North City—they are often overgrown with vegetation, sometimes high enough to make them impassable. But Perry has instructed her school-aged kids, ages 10 and 7, not to cross the street to the other side, under any circumstances. There, a hulking vacant building looks close to collapse.

With both sidewalks impassable, she’s worried they have no choice but to walk in the street.

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Overgrown sidewalks frustrate North City neighbors | St. Louis Magazine

Unlike road maintenance, to which cities provide millions annually, sidewalk maintenance generally receives little to no funding or attention at all.