It's real BS from the city permit office. In other countries in MD and in DC, if you want to build a conduit/gas line/water line, the permit office requires that the contractor needs to include repaving the road curb to curb, curb repair, sidewalk repair/improvements, road striping.

It's a good way for municipalities to get road improvements without having to pay for them out of pocket, it just becomes the cost of construction.

I do not see Baltimore enforcing this anywhere in the city. And if they did, we'd have a nicer place to live in.