{"id":200,"date":"2010-08-20T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/20\/the-lawrence-street-house-sidewalks-and-urbanite"},"modified":"2019-10-10T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:08:00","slug":"the-lawrence-street-house-sidewalks-and-urbanite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesimplehouse.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"The Lawrence Street House \u2013 Sidewalks and Urbanite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our lot is 60 x 150 feet. The 150 foot side has a fairly new sidewalk, but the 60 foot side on Lawrence Street, I think may have the original sidewalk from 1940. It’s worn, broken, heaving and needs to be replaced.<\/span>

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Now, we could chop it up, haul it to the dump and contribute to the roughly one third of the local waste stream that comes from construction debris or (and here’s where it gets good), we could reuse those chunks as part of our landscape plan.<\/span>

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It’s called “urbanite” and a good description can be found at <\/span>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yk4rmzr<\/span><\/a>. So we’re working with our landscape architect on this and as Rex, from <\/span>DLA’s<\/span><\/a> office said “<\/span><\/span>I built a patio at a previous house that way and really liked it. Saves disposal and hauling energy of the old plus new material extraction and hauling energy!”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our lot is 60 x 150 feet. The 150 foot side has a fairly new sidewalk, but the 60 foot side on Lawrence Street, I think may have the original sidewalk from 1940. It’s worn, broken, heaving and needs to be replaced.Now, we could chop it up, haul it to the dump and contribute to … <\/p>\n

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