First-ring Twin Cities snow plowing for Edina driveways, walkways, and the commercial campuses along Southdale and I-494.
01 Street order
Edina begins operations at 1.5 inches, drifting, or serious ice. The city does not treat every street as equal.
High-volume and emergency access. First cut. If your driveway sits on one, the public curb may open before a quiet residential block.
Access to schools and commercial districts is the second rank — Southdale, Galleria, 50th & France, I-494 parks.
After the ranked streets. A house on a quiet block waits longer than a house on a Red Route.
Last on the city list. That is exactly where a private plow still earns its keep. See Snow Plowing.
02 Forty-eight hours and a 1 a.m. ban
Adjoining owners have 48 hours after precipitation stops to clear the sidewalk (City Code / Sec. 24-91). The city already maintains eligible walks along state, interstate, county, and MSA roads and city property. City reporting: roughly 77 miles of sidewalk, about 55 city-cleared, 22 by residents. Policy: Sidewalk Maintenance Policy.
Winter parking is stricter than the sidewalk clock. No parking after 1.5 inches until the street is plowed to the curbline. No parking 1–6 a.m. from November 1 through March 31, weather or not. No parking six or more consecutive hours unless a sign says otherwise.
03 What we plow in Edina
Edina is a first-ring Hennepin suburb, 15.46 square miles of land, 53,494 people in 2020, density 3,461.1. More than 95 percent developed; residential is the largest land use. Minnehaha Creek and Nine Mile Creek cut the city. Neighborhood names include Braemar Hills, Dewey Hill, Highlands, and Indian Hills.
Plow MN — licensed and insured — plows residential driveways and walkways and commercial lots. Seasonal or per-plow. We do not run Red Routes. We run the private surface that is still last on the city’s ranked list. Metro snowfall we cite: 51.2 inches at MSP (1991–2020, USW00014922), Minnesota DNR / NOAA.
04 Edina questions
Edina City Code — also Sec. 24-91 — says all snow and ice shall be removed from a sidewalk by the adjoining property owner within 48 hours of the cessation of precipitation. The city maintains eligible sidewalks along state/interstate, county, and MSA roads and city property under its Sidewalk Maintenance Policy. Roughly 77 miles of sidewalk exist; about 55 are city-cleared and 22 sit with residents.
Operations begin at 1.5 inches, drifting, or serious ice. Red Routes (high-volume and emergency access) go first, then school and commercial access, then low-volume residential, then alleys, cul-de-sacs, and city lots. The sequence is on the snow plowing page.
No parking when 1.5 inches or more has fallen until the street is plowed to the curbline. Separately, no parking 1–6 a.m. from November 1 through March 31, regardless of weather. No parking for six or more consecutive hours unless signed.
Wikipedia, citing the Census, says more than 95 percent of the city is developed and residential is the largest land use. Commercial districts include Southdale Center, Galleria Edina, 50th & France, and I-494 business parks. We plow both driveways and those commercial lots.
Minnehaha Creek and Nine Mile Creek. Neighborhood names on the hills include Braemar Hills, Dewey Hill, Highlands, and Indian Hills. First-ring Hennepin, 15.46 square miles of land, density 3,461.1 (Census 2020 population 53,494).
No. We use the Twin Cities airport normal: 51.2 inches (1991–2020, MSP / USW00014922), as published by NOAA NCEI and the Minnesota DNR.
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