Snohomish officials tell man to remove makeshift pathway

SNOHOMISH — Steve Nagy spent three years working on a pathway to help pedestrians navigate past a ditch along Bickford Avenue in Snohomish.

But now, because of code violations, city officials say he has to get rid of it by the end of the month.

Nagy built the path with the goal of keeping people safe, he said Thursday. On that side of the street, a sidewalk abruptly ends, and there’s no marked crosswalk nearby to get to the other side, where there is a sidewalk.

“I put a lot of work and effort into this thing,” he said. “To have someone come along and destroy it, just because someone told them to or whatever, it doesn’t seem right. It doesn’t sit well with me.”

City officials, however, also said they had safety in mind. Federal building codes and sidewalk regulations exist to keep walk