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1. Why isn't my street plowed right away?

Emergency routes are always the first priority after any snowfall. These "redlines" are established to ensure emergency vehicles can reach within one or two blocks of every home. After emergency routes are clear, the city is split into 11 plowing districts. Each district has 4 different starting points that rotate with each snowfall. If your street was plowed last this time, it won’t be next round.

2. Where can I park?

From November 1 through April 1, Fridley’s City Code prohibits parking on any city street between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. In addition, there is no street parking anytime while snow removal is in progress. Vehicles left on the street slow plow drivers, risk damage to your vehicle and the plow, and incur extra costs to tow vehicles and re-plow roads. Vehicles left on the street during these times could be tagged and towed at your expense.

3. Why did my garbage container get hit? (This is our biggest obstacle every year!)

Nothing can go in the street – not garbage cans, not snow pushed off your drive, not recycling containers, nothing. Keep all garbage and recycling containers in your driveway. Please help us – it is impossible for us to navigate those big plows around thousands of garbage cans. It is against City Code to push/shovel/blow snow onto or across city streets and boulevards. Penalties range from a formal warning up to a $700 fine or 90 days in jail plus any City cost. Property owners are responsible for their actions or those of their contracted snow remover. The City is also not responsible for damage to landscaping, recycling and garbage containers that are in the street or right-of-way.

4. Why can’t my children play in the snow bank by the street?

We need your help in keeping children safe. Plows are big trucks. Sight lines can be limited at times and they need extra room to turn. For this reason, it is very important to keep children at a safe distance. The driver may not see a child playing in the snow drift near the street. We don’t want anyone to get hurt.

5. Is my plow driver out to get me? I just shoveled the end of my drive!

We all look out at the end of our driveway and feel this at some point. Fridley crews work hard, long hours and they do their best to split the road right down the middle. They have to go home and shovel their driveway at the end of the day, too.