A City Council work session to discuss sidewalks in Colleyville is scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 12 at the city's public library.

The session came about because residents are unhappy with a city requirement to build sidewalks with new home construction in certain areas or pay money to the city to be escrowed in a sidewalk fund.

A map drawn up by a sidewalks committee of residents dictates which locations have the requirement, which can be appealed first to the Planning and Zoning Commission and then to the City Council. The appeals are often turned down, despite residents' contentions that construction is nearly impossible because of physical limitations or because the sidewalks do not connect to anything.

Resident Chris Putnam, who has created a video called "Sidewalks to Nowhere," and presented it to the council, said the sidewalk required at his house would be the lone strip on his street. He said he has paid the city $6,000 in escrow money, and that the sidewalk would be physically impossible to construct. Putnam said the sidewalk map created by the committee doesn't work because it fails to take topography and other factors into account. The policy's aim is to eventually provide citywide pedestrian connectivity.