La Grange, MO Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Section 215.191, dating to Ordinance No. 21 from June 15, 1906, sets out five separate limits on how private property owners may build into or over the public sidewalk in the City of La Grange. Subsection A bars any porch, gallery, platform, steps or other fixture from extending into or upon a sidewalk at all, though awnings, galleries or signs may project above the sidewalk if they clear it by at least seven feet. Subsection B limits a cellar door or other basement entrance to no more than three feet onto the sidewalk from the property line, and requires it to be safely and substantially built without rising above the sidewalk's surface.

Subsection C caps any cellar grate or window curbing at two feet onto the sidewalk or street. Subsection D gives builders, contractors, masons, carpenters and architects working on a nearby building the right to occupy up to half the sidewalk's width for construction purposes. Subsection E allows shade trees to be planted within the street lines, but only under the direction of the Street Committee and never more than twelve feet from the street property line. A related Section, 215.193, separately makes it an ordinance violation to place or throw any object on a street, alley or public thoroughfare so as to obstruct it, or to leave glass, nails, wire or similar hazards there.

Because Section 215.191 sets no fine of its own, violations are punished under the Code's General Penalty, Section 100.220, up to $1,000.00 and three months in jail, with each day a fixture remains in place a separate offense.