Existing Sidewalks

This feature class shows a sidewalk polygon for each block of the City of Ithaca. It is highly generalized. The layer was drawn from aerial photography and cross checked with a line layer showing which street blocks have sidewalk. It does not include the corners where ramps might be. It was drawn to be used administratively. Emphasis was placed on identifying the blocks which the City's sidewalk program is responsible for maintaining. Less attention was paid in the development of blocks owned privately by Cornell University. Complimentary layers for areas of no sidewalk are also developed. The work was done in 2014 and 2015 with annual updates to include new sidewalk installed by the City and informal additions of sidewalk in the Cornell University Campus. Sidewalk layer sometimes includes mid block extensions to road. The block as drawn does not distinguish the locations of driveways. It also does not include private walkways inside private parcels. There are some exceptions in the Cornell campus and other places, primarily due to a cemented area being contiguous to a structure or joining a footpath. The data includes fields for ownership and jurisdiction. See INCINMODEL = Yes for City maintenance responsibility.