From six daylight hours to whenever the heck you get around to it, snow-shoveling laws vary widely across the Washington region.

Besides the pavers, the Golden Triangle BID also added seating, flower beds, and bike parking to a pocket park on the south side of Dupont Circle.

A man walking to a meeting in Ballston fell 15 feet into a ventilation shaft after a steel grate he stepped on gave way.

The sidewalk in front of the White House was reopened to pedestrian this morning.

It’s a usual winter-time complaint in the District — snow falls, residents and business-owners alike fail to properly shovel and pedestrians are left to navigate treacherous sidewalks. But a bill making its way through the D.C. Council would finally update a ninety-year-old law and more forcefully require residents and business to shovel their walks after any significant amount of snow.

Photo by spectreman Sidewalk signs and sandwich boards like the one pictured above are technically illegal in the District, but hundreds of local businesses have long ignored the law. Take a stroll along M Street in Georgetown, 18th Street in Adams Morgan, or U Street between 15th and 16th and you’re likely to find dozens of signs enticing customers with specials and sales dotting the sidewalk along the way. They do it because sidewalk…