Michigan neighborhood bands together to buy tractor, clear sidewalks: Could you?

(Cleveland.com) (Ed: Next move for our neighborhoods for public safety?)

The residents of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, neighborhood pooled together to buy a $43,000 tractor to plow their sidewalks.

More than a dozen signed up to drive their sidewalk snowplow, SnowBuddy, around the 1,000 homes of Water Hill after snowstorms. Another 25 residents serve as shovelers, clearing the piles of snow left behind.

Cool, right? We saw this story and wondered, would such a cooperative work here, too? It snows here, making sidewalks treacherous for dog walkers, mail carriers and kids walking to school. Some cities, including University Heights, plow sidewalks. But as far as we know, no neighborhood has bought itself a sidewalk snowplow.

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