A number of questions have been asked on Facebook about snow plowing in our development by our City snow plows. As it relates to cul-de-sacs in our development, concerns have been expressed about why plows are not clearing the end of the street, but just making a single pass up and down the street with a sweep at the circle.
Association trustees worked with other homeowner associations in the City several years ago to improve the snow removal process. High Point, like most other developments in the City, are blessed with many cul-de-sac streets. Our development has 22 cul-de-sacs. When snow plows clear each one, it takes an average of 15-20 minutes for a truck to perform this task. During storms like the one this weekend, the City plows have a difficult task of keeping main roads clear as well as secondary primary streets like Admiralty, Saratoga and Heritage. Trustees from a number of associations lobbied City Council several years ago to get trucks to all streets faster in order to open residential streets sooner. In order to accomplish that, the trade-off was clearing cul-de-sacs completely as a lower priority.
In storms such as this weekend, City plows work hard to get to every street to complete and in and out pass to clear the street, leaving the clearing of the cul-de-sac for later. This gets streets open much sooner to residents can get out to main roads to travel. As a result, homeowner associations have seen an overall improvement on the delivery of snow plowing services.
High Point trustees understand that everyone wants their street completely cleared after a snow storm and appreciate residents being patient with clearing the cul-de-sac completely in order to clear a path on every street as soon as possible.
High Point trustees