The homograph for the word "curb" is "curb," which can refer to either a raised edge along a street or a restraint or control on something.
Usually the city owns 10 ft in from the curb. Saying that, the property owner has to maintain the grass and sidewalk...ie mowing and keeping the walk clean and snow and ice free. Plus if the sidewalk gets broken up, you have to fix it...
In most US cities, the sidewalk is on an easement owned by the city. This easement usually runs from the sidewalk to the curb. The property owner is responsible for the upkeep of the sidewalk including shoveling snow and repairing any damage.
A road verge is a strip of grass or plants located between a curb and a sidewalk. Other names for a road verge include verge, city grass, hellstrip, nature strip, planting strip, boulevard, parkway, and tree belt.
In Akron, Ohio. It is the term for the strip of lawn between the sidewalk and the street curb.
A monolithic sidewalk is when the curb and sidewalk and poured together in the same mould. Basically, the sidewalk is right beside the road. There are other uses for monolithic too. Sometimes the road and curb are poured in one continuous piece. There is a machine that rolls along the ground then pours and moulds it as it goes. There are also monolithic buildings. They're made out of one piece also. The reason for monolithic is for strength. It takes a lot less time but more concrete is normally used. It shouldn't crack like a normal sidewalk for example. Hope that was helpful.
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The curb on side of the road is too high!
In your final parking position, your wheels must be no more than one foot (30 cm) from the curb.
To kick something to the curb is an idiom that means you are discarding something. Imagine that you are in a car and you kick something out as you drive by, or that you kick something off the sidewalk to the curb on the street. If you kick reason to the curb, you discard reason or logic. This would mean that you are ignoring reason and logic and making decisions based on emotion instead.
In the UK we call the US sidewalk the 'pavement' and what the US calls the pavement (the paved area) is called the 'road' in the UK. However in both cultures I believe the edge of the pavement is called the curb. This may be just an end of the paved area or may be demarcated by a set of curb stones which raise the sidewalk above the height of the road surface.
152/(6*6) = 4.22... (recurring) feet.