Three separate bodies of rule govern snow on a Twin Cities property: where you can park during an emergency, what you must clear and how fast, and where the snow is allowed to end up. All three vary by city, and two of them carry real money.
Minneapolis runs a three-day even and odd cycle with a parkway exception most residents miss. Saint Paul runs night and day plow routes and does not sign the day routes at all. Tickets, tows and what each costs.
Who clears the public sidewalk, within how many hours, and what the city bills you if you do not. Minneapolis and Saint Paul put it on you. Minnetonka, Bloomington and Plymouth largely do it themselves.
Minn. Stat. § 169.42 makes it a misdemeanor, with a $400 minimum on a second offense — and the statute reaches the homeowner who hired the plow, not just the operator.
The ordinances are not trivia. Sidewalk frontage is the largest single variable in a residential quote, and a corner lot in the core cities runs close to double an interior lot in the suburbs.
Whatever your city requires, the operator who gets there first is the one whose route you are already on.
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