Powderhorn is pre-1940 housing on one of the tighter grids in the city. Short blocks mean a lot of corners — and in Minneapolis a corner lot is not a little more sidewalk. It is roughly double the winter.
Minneapolis requires the corner property to clear both sidewalk frontages and the curb cutouts and crosswalk ramps, all the way out to the street gutter. Those ramps sit at the lowest point on the block and are exactly what the city plow refills on its next pass.
That is why a city corner lot quotes at $1,100 to $1,400 a season against $600 to $750 for a suburban interior lot. Not because the driveway is bigger — it is usually smaller — but because of what the ordinance wraps around the property. The full pricing breakdown.
The relief, such as it is: you do not have to clear the plow piles left beyond the gutter at corners. City crews handle those after an emergency.
Powderhorn is alley-platted like the rest of the pre-1950s city, and Minneapolis plows its alleys. What remains yours is the apron between garage and alley, the 36-inch path to your carts (or $30 each if they are buried on collection day), and the sidewalk on the 24-hour clock.
Snow goes on your yard or the boulevard — never the street or the alley. That is a state misdemeanor under Minn. Stat. § 169.42, with a $400 minimum on a second offense, and the statute reaches whoever hired the plow as well as the operator.
Corner or mid-block, frontage length, alley access and whether there are steps. Corner is the big one.
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