48 New Condos Overlooking the Lake

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by Descant

It's easy walking distance to Weirs Beach, Thurston's Marina. It's a very long walk up a steep hill to get home, especially if you're carrying anything.

You know that's actually a good thing, "a very long walk up a steep hill to get home", because driving a motorboat gives you basically little to no aerobic exercise, you just stand there and ride the power boat and maybe get bounced around, so's walking up a steep hill will probably hit that exercise, work-out spot for many, but not all motorboaters. .....

And, just WALKING, is excellent exercise especially as you get older, and WALKING UPHILL is even better-er exercise ...... to make you physically-fit-er ...... just like Roger Federer ..... hut-hut-hut! .....

It's normal in NH to see people walking or jogging along a road with no sidewalk but this new condo development is situated in the middle of the super steep Tower St, Rt-3, and Lakeside Ave and Rt-3 and Lakeside Ave have very nice, wide sidewalks. So, is doable for these condo dwellers to walk out their front door and go take a pretty good loop walk via Tower St-Lakeside Ave-Rt-3 with a good amount of walking safety from moving traffic.

So, what's the snow removal situation for the Lakeside Ave and Rt 3 sidewalks, and super-steep Tower St. Is there snow removal or what for locals to use the sidewalks in winter? Will Mayor Hosmer be out there with a shovel doing these public sidewalks or what! ..... hut-hut-hut .....

[map]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

You know that's actually a good thing, "a very long walk up a steep hill to get home", because driving a motorboat gives you basically little to no aerobic exercise, you just stand there and ride the power boat and maybe get bounced around, so's walking up a steep hill will probably hit that exercise, work-out spot for many, but not all motorboaters. .....

And, just WALKING, is excellent exercise especially as you get older, and WALKING UPHILL is even better-er exercise ...... to make you physically-fit-er ...... just like Roger Federer ..... hut-hut-hut! .....

It's normal in NH to see people walking or jogging along a road with no sidewalk but this new condo development is situated in the middle of the super steep Tower St, Rt-3, and Lakeside Ave and Rt-3 and Lakeside Ave have very nice, wide sidewalks. So, is doable for these condo dwellers to walk out their front door and go take a pretty good loop walk via Tower St-Lakeside Ave-Rt-3 with a good amount of walking safety from moving traffic.

So, what's the snow removal situation for the Lakeside Ave and Rt 3 sidewalks, and super-steep Tower St. Is there snow removal or what for locals to use the sidewalks in winter? Will Mayor Hosmer be out there with a shovel doing these public sidewalks or what! ..... hut-hut-hut .....

They don’t clear the snow.

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by map

They don’t clear the snow.

Per the ADA they have to.

[sky's]

we moved up here 23 years ago from a condo development in Milford NH beautiful units 2000 sq. ft each but like most associations you have to threaten with legal action to get anything done. take South Down Shores we did some remodeling in there several years ago and the people that approach us and complained about how the association was being run was horrible. To this day i have stopped any activity in the development. so whatever happens here will be all good for the first 5-10 years and all the mistakes will start to surface because they will seek out the lowest "bid" and then the fun starts. roofs leaking, rot repair from improper vinyl siding installers, and the list goes on.

[fatlazyless]

If property owners from this new 143 Endicott St-48 town house development ask the city to start removing the snow from the Rt 3 sidewalk and Lakeside Ave sidewalk it's a safe bet the city will remove the snow. What is it, maybe a one half mile loop walk, going along Tower St, Endicott St (Rt 3), and Lakeside Ave for a circular walk around the area. Laconia has a sidewalk snowplow and does the Lakeport and downtown areas.

Ariens makes a walk behind machine with a big rotating brush that actually does a good job for getting right down close to the asphalt, something that snowblowers do not usually do too good.

Have you seen the sidewalk snow remover in Meredith? Meredith has a very powerful front end loader, maybe 42" wide, with a snowblower that is a very strong performer.

The NH Dept Transportation does not do sidewalk snow removal, and leaves it up to the local towns which applies to the long sidewalk on Endicott St which is also Rt-3, D W Hgwy.

Maybe I can get an on-call, part time job and go hit the sidewalks there, when it snows, with my 10 year old 24" Troy-Bilt snowblower ..... hut-hut-hut! ....

Tower St has no sidewalk and gets snow removal by the city plows and is actually a better place to walk in the winter on the steep road than either the sidewalk on Lakeside Ave or Endicott St because their sidewalks do not get snow removal but that could maybe change with this new, big money development happening with 48 townhouses.

You know there's a snowblower repair guy in Lakeport at Lakeport Power Equipment who can keep old snowblowers running forever.

[map]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

Per the ADA they have to.

Well they do it once or twice and then they stop for whatever reason. At least for the 2 years I’ve lived here that’s the way it’s been.

[Descant]

I spent a winter in the Weirs area m any years ago. There were few people there; the only businesses open were the Superette, the Fire Station and the Post Office. Occasionally a train went through. Lakeside Ave was plowed, but there was certainly no reason to clear sidewalks. Not much has changed, except the PO and the Fire Station moved to Rt 11B.

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by Descant

I spent a winter in the Weirs area m any years ago. There were few people there; the only businesses open were the Superette, the Fire Station and the Post Office. Occasionally a train went through. Lakeside Ave was plowed, but there was certainly no reason to clear sidewalks. Not much has changed, except the PO and the Fire Station moved to Rt 11B.

The reason is to avoid the lawsuit.
Belmont has a sidewalk that runs down past the town beach to the Laconia city line... it has no real value... but we were sued under the ADA for not keeping it cleared.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by John Mercier

The reason is to avoid the lawsuit.
Belmont has a sidewalk that runs down past the town beach to the Laconia city line... it has no real value... but we were sued under the ADA for not keeping it cleared.

Geesh! A good lawyer for Belmont would have gotten postponements until the snow melted and then it would have been a moot question. You'rte taking this thread waaaay too seriously. You don't remember when Lakeside Ave was plowed in a manner that allowed the fire department to spray an area for a skating rink?

[John Mercier]

No. It would arise again as I am sure that you understand that it snows in future years. The ruling would stand, and another court case would not be needed except to determine damages.

I remember a lot of things in Laconia on Lakeside and there abouts. I also remember that they occurred at a different time under different regulations and conditions.

I think you could find several snowmobilers that could relate coming from Lilly Pond down to Karl's and then needing the sidewalk over the bridge covered with snow to control their machines so they could get back down onto the rail.

The trip to Karl's was legal at the time because the law required land to posted against usage, and the rail was/is legal when snowcovered between the posted dates. The trip over the bridge on the sidewalk was never legal... but Laconia DPW gave up on keeping it clean as we would just push it back down into the sidewalk.

We just aren't in those times anymore.