Conroe, TX Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)

Section 58-92 assigns responsibility for the strip of public land next to a private lot squarely to whoever occupies that lot: the owner, tenant or lessee must keep the abutting or adjacent sidewalk, parkway and alleyway free of weeds, trash, rubbish, discarded furniture, household items, personal property, filth and debris. The duty extends beyond the sidewalk slab itself to "the right-of-way easements, ditches, drainage area or any area between the curb line or grade line of any public street and the abutting private property line," and it requires that qualifying material be placed in trash receptacles as the Code requires.

Failure to comply is not just a citation risk; the section expressly declares it a nuisance subject to the abatement procedure in Chapter 26, Article II, Division 2, which lets the city step in and clean up at the owner's expense. The section was amended by Ord. No. 2617-22, adopted May 12, 2022, tying the current wording to the city's post-Harvey push on drainage and right-of-way maintenance. This is a maintenance and cleanliness duty, not a paving-repair mandate: work that requires digging up or reconstructing the sidewalk surface itself instead falls under the right-of-way construction permit in Section 58-324.