More snow - ordinances (?)

Cheney’s City Council has set the wheels in motion to consider creating an ordinance requiring residents and businesses to clear sidewalks adjacent to their property after a snowfall.

Salnave-area resident Kathy Fleming approached the council during citizen comments at its Feb. 28 meeting about the need to keep sidewalks free of ice and snow during the winter. Fleming related a recent incident she witnessed where an older woman using a walker was walking down First Street — literally in the street — near Mitchell’s Harvest Foods because the sidewalks were covered with snow.

As a semi passed he...