Please remember that property owners are required by law to clear their walkways so that EVERYONE has safe access throughout the City. Senior citizens, people with disabilities, parents with strollers, and mail carriers -just to name a few -struggle to negotiate hazardous walkways...we need to do our part to make our community safe and accessible for all..

• Homeowners: Once snow has stopped falling, residences have twenty-four (24) hours to remove snow from public sidewalks adjacent to their property.  
  
  
• Businesses: Once snow has stopped falling, businesses have four (4) hours to remove snow from public sidewalks adjacent to their property.
  
  
• Report A Problem: Please contact Denver 3-1-1 to provide the address of unshoveled sidewalks.
  
  
• Enforcement: Denver performs proactive inspections in business districts, and we rely on citizen complaints to help us identify those property owners that need to be educated about sidewalk safety requirements. The vast majority of people comply with the first sidewalk safety notice issued by the City. In the rare instances where a property owner refuses to comply, Denver takes escalating legal action, which can include issuing an Administrative Citation that carries a $150 penalty. Denver manages 3,000 sidewalk safety cases a year.