Glendale, AZ Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)

Under Section 30-51, the city council may pass an ordinance directing that streets and sidewalks be constructed, and that ordinance orders the work to be done by the owners of the abutting property; if those owners fail to build them, the city does the work and charges the abutting owners for it. Section 30-52 requires the city engineer to notify each abutting lot owner that work must start within sixty days of the notice date, warning that if the owner fails to commence and complete the work within that sixty-day window, the city will make the improvements and the cost becomes a lien on the abutting property.

Section 30-53 caps what can be assessed: for adjacent arterial streets, the assessment cannot exceed the cost of improving more than half the width or more than one thousand lineal feet of the street, and a single-family lot no wider than two hundred lineal feet cannot be assessed more than half the cost of an average residential street citywide; any assessment abates if the property is not developed within ten years. Section 30-54 makes it the abutting owner's duty to build the ordered sidewalk, and if the owner does not comply after notice, the city constructs it and assesses the cost and levies it the same way county property taxes are collected, including delinquent-tax collection and sale-for-nonpayment procedures.