Snow removal across Bloomfield Township’s subdivisions and lake lots, where the county plows the streets and every homeowner handles the drive.
This is a referral service. In Bloomfield Township, the plowing, shoveling and salting are done by an independent operator under its own name and insurance.
Bloomfield Township wraps around Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and is built mostly as subdivisions from the 1950s through the 1980s: brick ranches in the older sections, two-story colonials with attached side-entry garages in the newer ones, and larger homes on the small lakes scattered through the township.
Side-entry garages are the detail an operator will ask about. The turn in front of the garage doors is where snow piles up and where a plow has the least room, and it is usually hand-finished with a blower. Lake lots add a second problem: short, steep drives down toward the water and shared lanes that are not public roads.
How the county’s trucks work through township subdivisions is covered in who plows your street; if your lane is private, start with private roads and shared drives.
Bloomfield Township is the exception to nearly every generalization about winter in this county, and the source of a great deal of bad advice traded across its borders — a resident here genuinely does get their subdivision street plowed by the township, and a neighbor two miles away in Orion or West Bloomfield does not. Two things do not change: the township does not clear snow pushed into driveways, and it speaks directly to snow contractors, telling residents to direct them to pile snow far enough off the road that it does not narrow the roadway, and warning that snow left on the wrong side of a driveway comes straight back on the next pass.
Bloomfield Township is the exception to the township rule in this county. A late-1960s modification to Act 51 let it take on surface maintenance of its own subdivision roads, funded by a dedicated one-mill millage, and it plows more than 200 miles across twelve service areas. RCOC retains legal jurisdiction and handles thoroughfares, signage and drainage.
Unusually for a Michigan township, Bloomfield Township plows its own subdivision streets — more than 200 miles across twelve service areas. A modification to Act 51 in the late 1960s let it assume surface maintenance of those roads, funded by a dedicated one-mill millage, while RCOC retained legal jurisdiction and still handles thoroughfares, signage and drainage.
No sidewalk snow ordinance was found for the township. What it does have is a Snow Emergency Ordinance adopted in February 2006: during a declared emergency, parking is prohibited on publicly maintained streets, residents have six hours from the declaration to move vehicles, and fines run up to $100 plus towing.
Owner-occupancy is 87.9%, among the highest in the county, on 43,904 residents and a median home value of $604,800. The stock is the older estate range shading into post-war and mid-century subdivisions, with boiler heat still common in the larger houses.
Nearby: Birmingham · Bloomfield Hills · Troy · Novi · all service areas
The address plus a rough description of the drive, the walks and the frontage is enough to price a Bloomfield Township season.
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