Seasonal and per-visit snow removal for Bloomfield Township property owners — with what this community actually publishes about plowing, sidewalks and who is responsible for what.
Work in Bloomfield Township is carried out by an independent snow removal operator under their own company name and insurance. This site arranges the introduction and clears nothing itself.
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.
This is the middle of the county’s snowfall gradient, between Detroit Metro Airport’s 45.0-inch seasonal normal and the 60 to 70 inches the National Weather Service reports near its office in White Lake Township. Triggers and completion targets across the county.
Private roads are the exception to all of it. No township, city or road commission in Oakland County plows a private road, and four jurisdictions state so in writing. Oakland County has roughly 5,600 miles of public road; everything beyond that is a private arrangement. What to do if yours is one.
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.
A corner lot has two public frontages instead of one, plus the curb ramps in most of these ordinances — three to four times the work of a mid-block house, and blower and shovel work rather than plow work. That is why every rate card checked in this county carries a corner-lot surcharge. Every city’s deadline.
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.
Full basements are standard across this county and frost depth runs about 42 inches. Two practical consequences every winter: stakes go in before the ground freezes, in the first week of November; and snow piled against a foundation or over a basement window well drains into it on the first thaw. Neither is expensive to avoid in October.
Seasonal residential contracts on the one published Oakland County rate card run $1,595 for a single or double driveway with walkways, $2,795 for a circle drive or an unusually long driveway, and $7,995 for a large estate approach, with salting adding roughly $400 at the residential tiers. Per-visit work in recent Michigan data runs $50 to $100 for a typical driveway and sidewalk. Trigger is two inches; staking is included and done in the first week of November.
Ask one question before any of those numbers: does the price include a return pass after the municipal plow leaves a berm across the apron? Farmington Hills and Troy both state on the record that clearing that ridge is the homeowner’s job. All the published figures, with sources.
Nearby: Birmingham · Bloomfield Hills · Troy · Novi · all service areas
Address, driveway type, what else needs clearing, corner or not, and whether the road is public or private.
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