Lauderhill, FL Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)

Section 18-11 declares it the city commission's intent to hold the owner of land within the city responsible for constructing sidewalks for public use and for maintaining and repairing any existing sidewalk within the public right-of-way abutting that owner's land. Section 18-12 turns that intent into a duty: each property owner must reconstruct, maintain and keep in good repair the uniform sidewalk abutting their parcel, and where no sidewalk exists, the owner had one year from the September 10, 2001 passage of Ordinance No. 01O-8-49 to build one to the standards in Section 18-13, unless the parcel was fully developed under an existing site plan that did not require sidewalks, which is exempt.

Section 18-13 sets sidewalk width, material and grade to the specifications the city engineer requires, referencing Schedule L of the Land Development Regulations. The Public Works Department inspects sidewalks against objective criteria in Section 18-14: vertical displacement over one inch at a joint, horizontal displacement over one-half inch, scaling or peeling exceeding 25 percent of a block, or cracking and displacement exceeding 10 percent of the block surface all trigger a repair order. Under Section 18-15, the department must notify the owner by certified mail, giving 30 days to complete the work, with published notice as a backup if mail is returned unclaimed.

If the owner still fails to act, Section 18-16 lets the city perform the work and bill the owner for its cost plus a 15 percent administrative fee; unpaid bills become a recorded lien on the property, foreclosed like a mortgage. Jurisdiction over Article II sits with the code enforcement board under Section 18-19.