Keeping up sidewalks is part of a homeowner's duties. Those who live in one neighborhood are aware of that, but they're surprised that the city is marking their pavement for repairs.

While it's obvious in some parts of the city that sidewalks need repair in order to be safe for the public, neighbors around 54th and Farnam are asking why their block was targeted and are wondering what's wrong with their pavement.

"There's not a crack on this section of sidewalk, not one crack,” says Nancy Johnson about sidewalk squares marked in green, meaning they need to be replaced. "We have 1-2-3-4, we have 5 here and probably seven over on Farnam Street that aren't cracked, that just needed to be raised up."

Although she understands the importance of maintaining sidewalks for safety reasons, what she doesn't see are the dangers on her street. "Our block was the only one that we know of that was marked and we don't know why."

She also says the city should be spending their time and money on more important issues. "Across from the city-county, the Douglas County state building, there's been a chuckhole there since December. A hole, it has not been repaired, an actual hole. I don't get it."

The city says sidewalks are checked on a complaint driven basis. Someone in Nancy's neighborhood called and everyone within a two-block radius was marked. "We take pride in our house and our neighborhood, I mean we do everything we can to keep it, we don't understand why we're singled out."

Repairing the patches won't be cheap. "The neighbor up the street, she has four squares and it's over $500 to repair it." Nancy says she feels the neighborhood was unfairly targeted, perhaps because of their status. "Just because we live in a nice neighborhood doesn't mean we have a money tree growing and you know it's just not fair."

The city says the broken pieces are painted strictly based on if they are or could turn into a hazard. If you receive a sidewalk notice from the city you have 20 days to respond. You can hire a private contractor or tell the city to make the repairs. From there, the city can grant an extension to allow the homeowners time to make arrangements.