Apple Valley’s parking rule has no clock and no depth — it is unlawful to park while plowing is in progress — and its sidewalk rule is a 48-hour petty misdemeanor. Both are the city’s own wording. The published metro range applies, on 1970s-and-80s lots that were largely built by one developer.
There is no published price for snow removal in Apple Valley specifically. What is published, by named Twin Cities operators, is the metro range below. The section after it is what pulls a Apple Valley quote toward one end or the other.
Sources are named Twin Cities operators' own published price pages, gathered September 2026. The metro-level breakdown, with the corner-lot mechanism explained.
The sidewalk is yours within 48 hours. City Code § 96.03 puts public sidewalks on the owner or occupant, cleared within 48 hours after the snow or ice is deposited; violation is a petty misdemeanor. That puts public frontage into a quote, at the published $25 to $60 a visit for walkway work, without the urgency of a 12-hour city. Apple Valley also publishes that placing snow within a public street or walkway violates ordinance.
Parking has no hours. Under § 71.18 no vehicle may remain on any city street any time snow plowing or removal operations are in progress. No date range, no depth. The binding question is whether a truck is out. For a route that means streets are clear exactly when the city is working and not necessarily otherwise; it does not appear on your quote.
One developer, one era. Apple Valley was farmland into the 1950s and grew through the 1970s and 80s — 8,502 people in 1970 to 34,598 by 1990 — largely built by Orrin Thompson near County Road 42 and Cedar Avenue. A city built mostly by one builder in two decades has consistent lots and driveways, which makes quoting from the address reliable and keeps a typical property in the middle of the $600 to $750 tier. The city says it has virtually exhausted its buildable land since 1990.
Apple Valley publishes the classification — petty misdemeanor for both an uncleared sidewalk and parking during operations — but not the fine amount, and no tow or bill-back figure. Snow into the street or walkway violates city ordinance and carries the statewide misdemeanor under Minn. Stat. § 169.42, $400 minimum on a second offense, reaching the homeowner who caused it.
A seasonal contract in Apple Valley is not the cheap option and it is not the expensive one. Against the DNR's average of 7.6 two-inch days a season, per-visit billing at $75 to $100 lands at $570 to $760 — right on the $600 to $750 seasonal range. What you are choosing is whether a 39-inch February is your problem or the operator's. Apple Valley publishes no plow-callout depth, so the DNR’s 7.6 two-inch days is the right count for a per-visit estimate. The honest version of that comparison.
No Apple Valley-specific rate is published. Established Twin Cities operators publish $600 to $750 a season for a suburban driveway and front walk and $45 to $100 a visit. Apple Valley’s consistent 1970s-and-80s lots keep most quotes in the middle of that tier, with the 48-hour sidewalk rule putting public frontage in scope.
48 hours after snow or ice is deposited, under § 96.03. Violation is a petty misdemeanor; the city does not publish the fine amount.
Any time snow plowing or removal operations are in progress, under § 71.18. There are no hours or depth in the rule.
City rules on this page come from the city’s own published pages and are laid out in full on the Apple Valley service-area page. Where the city publishes no rule, this page says so rather than borrowing a neighbor’s.
Address, driveway size, how much public sidewalk you front, and whether it is a corner. Four facts, and the range above becomes a quote.
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