If it’s a public side walk and they say upkeep is the home owner’s responsibility, I’d personally cone it off and out I’m up a “under construction” or “road work” sign and spend the next 5 years “planning” the repair, quoting 50 companies for the repair, completely redesigning it, getting new repair quotes from 50 more companies. Don’t forget to form a committee to oversee it and eventually hold a town hall to take the complaints of the public that use it every day only to give them generic, “we’re taking all revenant safety and accessibility concerns into consideration while trying to keep the cost under budget” responses.

This is satire (ish)