Coon Rapids, MN Property Maintenance: Snow & Sidewalk Clearing (2026)

Coon Rapids City Code § 12-915(2), part of the Maintenance Standards for licensed rental dwellings, sets two separate snow deadlines that apply only to rental dwellings containing four or more dwelling units. Walkways, sidewalks, and steps must be cleared of any snowfall of one inch or more, or of successive snowfalls that add up to one inch or more, within 12 hours after the snow stops falling. Parking aisles, parking areas, and drives on the same properties get a longer window: snowfalls of three inches or more must be cleared within 72 hours of the snowfall's end.

The duty sits inside the broader rental-dwelling Maintenance Standards of § 12-915(1), which folds any violation of the City's Building Code, Land Development Regulations, Animal Control, Fire Prevention Code, or Health, Safety and Sanitation chapters into a public nuisance that can be abated under the City's Public Nuisance Chapter or Administrative Penalties Chapter. Because the snow-removal duty is a maintenance-standard obligation of the rental license rather than a stand-alone citywide rule, the Licensee, not individual tenants, carries the responsibility, and § 12-917(1)(b) lists failure to comply with a maintenance provision of the City Code as a ground for the City Manager to deny or not renew the rental license, or for the City Council to suspend or revoke it after a hearing.

Repeat or uncorrected maintenance violations also expose the Licensee to the administrative-penalty fine schedule in § 12-918, which starts at $200 for a first violation by a Phase Three crime-free program participant and rises to $2,000 for a third violation within 12 months, up to a City Council-set maximum of $10,000 per violation.