Changing the threshold for plowing residential streets to two inches better aligns the City’s snow and ice control operations with best practices among peer communities, and significantly improves resource management and effectiveness of the entire operations.
From a practical standpoint, trying to plow less than two inches of snow on residential streets can make conditions worse. There is usually quite a bit of snow packed to the pavement on residential streets and plowing can remove top layers providing traction which then makes conditions more slick.