Driveway/sidewalk Snow shoveling ???

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Our town supervisor gives out his work cell phone number and you can text him if your street was missed or needs to be plowed closer to the curb etc- the population in our town is 213,603- I would hate to be the one getting all those texts LOL. you can also post on his facebook page and he will get a truck out to you. Last year there was a big storm and the plows left about 4 feet from the curb unplowed- we all had the cars parked in the driveways and on the lawns so they could plow easily- I shot him a text saying we got cars off the block but they didn't cut in close to the curb- 15 minutes later there is a plow in front of my house plowing me right to the curb- people in houses near me ran out to flag him down to do theirs too LOL.

Whew yeah I totally wouldn't want to be that guy. As much as I think my city and county loves us as citizens I don't think they would personally give out their cell phone numbers so the residents can text for things like that as they would rather they use the channels already set up but cudos for your guy for doing that

Our area has really jumped on using Nextdoor social website. We've got our county, city and police department on it and they've been really good at quick responses. I'm sure there is a FB page too I just haven't ventured on there for that reason since I use Nextdoor.

 

[Gigi22]

Do you feel that you can state definitively that the driveway only needs to be wide enough for a single car based on what appears to be a single set of tire tracks in this one photo taken at one specific point in time?

Not sure how this effects the info. in my post, but ... Definitively? It also depends how long the driveway is, right? Because you can put one car in the garage and the other in the driveway if you have to. The year my mom moved our snowbanks, we had a single car garage (typical for the time). The driveway had to be kept cleared out in part because the access to the house depended on a pathway that led off the driveway, or going through the garage itself. So, she moved the snowdrift over to the middle of the lawn because there wasn't anywhere else to put the snow. That was the year we had to shovel off the back porch roof. That snow went in the back yard... Of course, we were also blessed with a large sized lot!

 

[aunties]

I just looked up our town rules about shoveling snow into the street. $50 for first offense, $100 each additional offense. State law requires all cars and trucks to be completely snow and ice free. I have seen many cars and trucks after a storm pulled over for this. Too many accidents and damages were occurring when snow and ice from one car would hit other cars.

In 2015, the snow banks from my back door to my driveway and the snow banks at the end of my driveway were over 5ft deep. It got to the point the snowblower was basically useless as it couldn't throw the snow over the existing banks. You either shoveled it over or hired someone else to do it. I cannot imagine the mess the streets would be if everyone shoveled it back into the streets.

 

[DisneyOma]

But that could be what homeowners are doing also. Picture this... snow falls. Homeowner clears their driveway down to the street. Plow comes by and covers up the bottom 4' of the driveway again. So, the homeowner has to go back out and simply "put the snow back where it came from".

I know you're just trying to yank the chain, but that's just stupid-thinking. I guess you live across the street from me? If so, your house is really gaudy.