Troy Road Walkway Installation

Below are shown the first sidewalk that was installed upon moving to Springfield's Troy Road Home

The walkway is not as nice as it could be, and is solely due to the Codes department having strict "regulations" that a payoff must be made to install a concrete sub-base.

So without any concrete and mortar, my sidewalk grows weeds.

Since It is illegal to create and pour concrete in the ground without an additional fee to an entity that will not so much as lift a shovel to help, it also was pointless to use any mortar at all between the joints of the masonry units (without a concrete sub-base, the mortar joints would crack up the very first year).

To avoid financing such bad business, I am manipulated to install the c.m.u., brick, and stone, directly into the ground without the "privilege" to properly install a steel-wire-reinforced concrete base.

Concrete = ingredients, of which are made entirely from the ground, going back into the ground is against their "codes" unless we first give them money?

But if those ingredients should mix themselves up and become a concrete pad, that's when the racket of profiteering might kick in with a "fine" or injunction that a person caught of such a heinous violation should at his or her own cost remove it (or else lien the property which would give them money one way or another).