Snow Parking Rules In Effect For Orland Park

ORLAND PARK, IL -- Orland Park’s snow rules are in effect. Residents and their guests are prohibited from parking in the street until the village’s snow plows can remove snow and salt the streets after the Christmas Eve snowfall. As with any snow event, residents are asked to keep their vehicles off the streets for at ten hours. Residents are also being asked to shovel or blow snow onto village streets, but to direct it to their lawns and parkways.

The village’s snow removal crews plow and salt more than 250 miles of roads throughout the village. The fleet includes 23 village owned trucks plowing and salting pre-designated routes. Private contractors are used to supplement the village’s plowing fleet when more than two to three inches of snow fall.

To aid in the swift and safe removal of snow, the Orland Park Public Works Department offers these ten tips to residents and business, per the village website:

1. Village ordinance prohibits parking on village streets once two inches of snow have fallen.
2. Parked vehicles must be kept off of the streets for 10 hours after it has stopped snowing.
3. When clearing the driveway, residents should place snow on either side of the driveway---on the lawn---and never in the street.
4. Residents should keep garbage cans and recycle bins from rolling into the street on garbage pick up day.
5. Designate curbs with five free stakes available from the Public Works Department, 15655 South Ravinia Avenue.
6. Digging from the street, clear out hydrants so that fire personnel can easily access them if necessary.
7. Do not clear your driveway at the curbline until the snowplow driver has made his last curb pass in front of your residence.
8. Be patient. Every storm is different with many variables. Streets may have to be plowed more than once.
9. Communicate with the Public Works Department. Report any ice formations on the street so that they can be salted. Clear the snow from storm sewers in front of your home so melting snow can easily drain, preventing ice patches.
10. Mailboxes should be kept in good repair and be placed at least one foot behind the curb to avoid damage. It is the residents’ responsibility to clear a safe path around mailboxes to ensure delivery. Homeowners’ associations are responsible for clearing the area around cluster mailboxes.

Further information about Orland Park's Snow Removal Program is available by calling the village's Public Works Department at 708/403-6350.