Originally Posted by Kage860
If the city planners want the sidewalk in a certain spot thats their call. Its not the concrete guys job to move the sidewalk one way or the other to widen the street or narrow the street. The city and the phone company need to work out their issues.
It's the pole's owner's responsibility to relocate their pole.
It's the general contractor's responsibility to coordinate the relocation during construction. It's his problem, now, to get the pole relocated and replace that piece of sidewalk. He should have gotten the relocation done beforehand, or asked the concrete contractor to gap the pole for now until it was done. Now, he will have to pay for that piece of concrete twice, plus another removal.
None of it is the city's responsibility, except that the city inspector shouldn't accept the work as it is.