Andover's parking ban starts an hour earlier and ends two weeks later than most of the metro. Both ends of that are easy to get wrong.
The ban runs between the hours of 1 and 6 a.m. from November 1 to April 15. That 1 a.m. start is as early as any found in this metro — shared with Chanhassen, Vadnais Heights, North St. Paul and Mahtomedi, while most cities start at 2 or 3 — and the April 15 end extends two weeks past the March 31 or April 1 that most cities use.
Separately, parking is prohibited after 2 inches or more of snowfall until the snow has been plowed.
Andover publishes no plow-callout depth, no completion timeframe and no sidewalk rule at all — its snow page does not address sidewalk responsibility, deadline or fines. This site does not assert one.
Andover publishes exact setbacks: garbage carts 2 feet behind the curb at the end of the driveway, and the mailbox post 20 inches back from the curb. Main streets are cleared first with large plows before smaller equipment reaches the cul-de-sacs.
On snow in the street the city cites Minnesota Statute 160.27. That is worth noticing: Blaine cites 169.42 and Ramsey cites 160.2715(a)(1) for what is essentially the same prohibition. Three neighboring cities, three different citations — which is why this site quotes each city's own and never generalizes one across the metro. The statute that binds statewide.
Mailboxes: the city assumes no liability unless the plow made direct contact with a box properly installed using the standard 4x4 post and metal box requirements. No dollar cap published.
Andover's growth curve points to a housing stock dominated by the 1980s through 2000s — 3,830 people in 1970, 15,216 by 1990, 26,588 by 2000. Median household income is $137,593, the highest in the northwest metro.
Address, driveway size, sidewalk frontage and whether it is a corner. Four facts and the quote stops being a range. What moves the number in Andover.
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