St. Paul leaders are exploring potentially big changes to the city's snow operations, including alternating one-sided parking rules for the winter months. Citing Duluth as an example, St. Paul officials on Wednesday described a system that would limit on-street parking to a single side that alternates on a weekly basis. That would leave one side of the street open for plows at all times. .
It looked more like winter in the Twin Cities on Wednesday night and Thursday morning than it did in all of December and January, as the metro area saw the season's largest snowfall overnight. With temperatures expected to remain below freezing heading into the weekend, it appears winter has finally arrived. Yet public works officials in Minneapolis and St. Paul decided Thursday against .
After as little as three inches of snowfall, St. Paul usually calls a snow emergency, setting into effect a 96-hour chain of procedures that begins at 9 p.m. of the first day with a heavy focus on plowing major arterial and collector streets. That gives residents all night to figure out where to store their cars before plows hit residential side streets the next morning. This winter, however, .