Calexico Municipal Code Ch. 12.04 Sidewalk Specifications

The width of sidewalks in the city shall be as follows:

A. Twelve-foot Walks. On Imperial Avenue south from Fifth Street, on Second and Third Streets west from Heffernan Avenue, and on Paulin and Rockwood Avenues between Second and Third Streets, sidewalks, including curbs, shall be twelve feet wide.

B. Twenty-foot Walks. On all other streets having a width of eighty feet or over, including those portions of Imperial, Paulin and Rockwood Avenues, and Second and Third Streets, not described in subsection A of this section, the width of the sidewalks shall be twenty feet.

C. Fifteen-foot Walks. On all streets and avenues less than eighty feet wide, the width of sidewalks shall be fifteen feet.

(Prior code §§ 8031, 8032.2, 8032.3)

A. Twenty-foot Sidewalks. Cement walks upon twenty-foot sidewalks shall be not less than five feet wide and laid so as to leave at least three feet of clear space next to the property line for grass or ornamental shrubbery.

B. Fifteen-foot Sidewalks. Upon fifteen-foot sidewalks, the walk shall be placed as near as possible midway between the tree line and the property line and shall be not less than three feet wide.

(Prior code § 8037)

A. All ditches hereafter constructed along any of the public streets shall have the center thereof approximately sixteen feet from the property line on streets with a twenty-foot sidewalk and fourteen feet on streets having a fifteen-foot sidewalk.

B. Outer Bank and Gutter Line. The outer or street bank of the ditch shall correspond with the gutter line.

(Prior code § 8032)

A. Twenty-foot Sidewalk. The gutter line on streets having a twenty-foot sidewalk shall be twenty feet from the property line and eight inches below the top of the sidewalk grade.

B. Fifteen-foot Sidewalk. Upon streets having a fifteen-foot sidewalk, the gutter line shall be fifteen feet from the property line and eight inches below the sidewalk grade, and form the toe or outer side of the ditches.

(Prior code § 8033)