Snow-mageddon never quite materialized for South Milwaukee, but my thanks go out once again to our hard-working road crews for keeping the streets clear of the slushy mess that fell in the city.
I also have answers to a few of the questions raised by my earlier post on the city’s snow policies. Among them:
- Shoveling. Here is what our code has to say about shoveling your sidewalk after a snowfall. You have to do it “within 24 hours of daylight” after the storm. Confused? I was too. Simply, what it means is that if the snow stops during daylight hours, the clock starts ticking immediately, and you have 24 hours from that point to clear off your sidewalk. If the snow stops during overnight hours, the clock starts ticking at dawn the next day … and your 24 hours start then.
- Snow emergencies. I had a couple questions about these. First, let me start by saying that these are apparently very rare for South Milwaukee. City Administrator Tami Mayzik estimates that only one or two have been declared in the 13 years she’s been with the city. With that in mind, when one is declared, parking is indeed prohibited on main thoroughfares in South Milwaukee (College, Rawson, Milwaukee and 15th avenues among them) from to 2 to 6 a.m. View a list of these streets here.
- Parking options. I also had a question asking if the city provides any parking options for those who have nowhere else to park during a snow emergency. The answer: We don’t. We leave it up to residents to make their own alternate arrangements.
I hope these answers are helpful when the next snow-nami rolls around.
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