EDINA, MINNESOTA
Edina gives property owners 48 hours to clear the public sidewalk after snowfall stops, but the city's own plows go out at 1.5 inches. Whatever they push off the street and onto your walk is yours to clear, too.
The harder rule is where your own snow can go. Edina's code keeps snow out of streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks and other public ground, and the one exception lets you pile it only on the boulevard next to your property, on your side of the street.
On Edina accounts, the lot runs on the trigger you choose and the sidewalks are shoveled and salted after every snowfall. Everything is dispatched from our Wayzata shop and logged in Yeti with photos and time stamps.
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Edina's plows give priority to the streets that serve schools and commercial businesses, right after the main routes. That gets people to your property early. Your lot has to be ready when they arrive.
Crews plow at the trigger in your contract and return during daytime storms to keep lanes open while the lot is busy. Piles are placed to save stalls and keep your exits clear to traffic.
The route is run by 15 to 20 crew members, scaled to each storm, with a spare in every equipment class: two wheel loaders, two compact track loaders, three plow trucks and two sidewalk machines.
Storage is where Edina gets strict. City Code Section 24-21 bars placing snow or ice on any street, boulevard, alley, sidewalk, easement, park or public ground, and the exception in Section 24-22 only lets snow from private property go on the boulevard adjacent to it, on the same side of the street. Depositing it outside that exception is a petty misdemeanor.
Edina City Code Section 24-91 requires the owner of the property adjoining a sidewalk to remove all snow and ice within 48 hours of the precipitation stopping. The rule is the same for businesses and homes, and it applies no matter how little snow falls.
The city clears some sidewalks itself, along state aid roads, active routes to school and in city parks, and only after the streets are plowed. The code exempts sidewalks built with state aid funds or on county or state right-of-way, and the city's Sidewalk Snow Maintenance Map shows which are which. Every other sidewalk is the responsibility of the property next to it, including the snow the street plow throws onto it.
Missing the deadline makes the snow a nuisance under Section 24-97. After at least seven days' written notice, the city can clear it and assess the cost to the property, collected with property taxes.
We don't wait on the lot trigger for sidewalks. They're shoveled and salted after every snowfall.
Edina salts its own streets sparingly on purpose. The city uses the lowest effective amount, doesn't aim for bare pavement, and mostly limits deicer to its main routes, steep grades and intersections. That leaves the ice on your lot and walks to you.
We keep 100 tons of salt at our own shop, so a busy stretch of storms doesn't put your property behind anyone else's delivery. Every application follows the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's Smart Salting best practices and goes into your service log.
In Edina, the boulevard next to your property is the only public ground your snow is allowed on, and on a commercial lot it fills fast. After that, the piles start costing stalls and blocking the view at your exits.
Then it's time to haul. Wheel loaders load the snow out and DOT-compliant dump trucks take it off the property, which gives back the parking and keeps you inside what the code allows. The city does the same on its own streets: where there is no room left on the boulevard, it hauls snow to a designated storage area.
Trigger depth decides when a crew rolls out, and it has more effect on contract price than anything else. Edina commercial accounts pick one of four:
Describe how the property is used and when people show up, and we'll recommend a trigger.
No two commercial properties are priced the same. Each bid reflects the size of the lot, the trigger depth, the length of sidewalk, and whether snow has to be hauled off site.
Every property is mapped for push zones and drains before the first storm, so each crew runs it the same way.
Every commercial site runs on Yeti, our snow management platform. It stamps each visit with arrival and departure times, attaches photos, and logs every salt application.
If a slip-and-fall claim ever comes up, you have the conditions, the timing and the treatment on record. We also send a certificate of insurance naming your business as additionally insured before the first visit, and you get direct cell numbers for whoever is running your storm, not a call center.
Our focus in Edina is commercial, but we plow residential driveways as well. Driveways are cleared within 10 hours after snowfall stops on a 2 inch trigger, and every residential truck uses rubber cutting edges that are easy on pavers and stamped concrete.
Homes in Edina get the same 48 hours as businesses to clear the public sidewalk, and the same limit on where the snow can go.
Edina starts plowing at 1.5 inches, and from that point no vehicle can park on a city street until it has been plowed to the curb line. From November 1 to March 31, street parking is also banned from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. regardless of the weather. In the 50th and France and Grandview commercial areas, the city code allows the city to take on snow and ice removal from sidewalks, streets and parking facilities and charge the cost back to properties in those areas, so owners there should know what they are already paying for. Snow removal details from the City of Edina and the Edina City Code.
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City Code Section 24-91 requires all snow and ice to be removed from a sidewalk within 48 hours of the precipitation stopping. The owner of the adjoining property is responsible, and the rule is the same for businesses and homes.
Only onto the boulevard adjacent to the property, on the same side of the street. Section 24-21 bars placing snow on streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks and other public ground, and depositing snow outside the Section 24-22 exception is a petty misdemeanor.
On sidewalks the city doesn't maintain, yes. Edina's snow policy puts all accumulated snow on those sidewalks on the adjoining owner, including snow plowed off the street.
Yes. Lots are plowed at your contract trigger, while walks are shoveled and salted every time it snows. Edina's sidewalk rule covers all snow and ice, so a light storm still counts.
Zero tolerance, half inch, one inch or two inch. With zero tolerance, crews arrive before the snow and clear continuously, and two inch is the standard choice for commercial lots.
Yes. Our focus in Edina is commercial, but residential driveways are cleared within 10 hours after snowfall stops on a 2 inch trigger, with rubber cutting edges on every residential truck. The front walk and steps are part of the service.
Every commercial property is bid individually, based on lot size, trigger depth, sidewalk length and whether snow must be hauled off site. You can buy service as a seasonal flat rate, per push, or as a prepaid bundle of plow visits and salt applications.
Once the snow melts, the same company keeps your grounds up through our commercial landscaping service.
One vendor, one set of people who already know the site, from the last storm to the first mow of spring.
Routes fill and then we're closed. Tell us about the property: lot size, sidewalk frontage, how much boulevard you have for storage, when people start arriving, and whether you need zero tolerance. We'll write the bid for your site.