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Serving Frankenmuth since 1906

Volume 120 No. 20

November 19, 2025

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Council approves new winter parking hours

  While winter weather and the snow it brings can come anytime now, the Frankenmuth City Council recently revisited and approved revising its overnight winter parking ordinance.

  This past spring, city officials asked city residents to help the Council consider making changes to this policy. The current parking standards for the city require vehicles to be removed from city streets from November 1 to April 30, from 2am to 6am, to facilitate City DPW snow plowing and salting.

  Frankenmuth City Manager Bridget Smith said several emails were received and nearly 70 people participated in an online survey.

  “The survey results varied between three options: keep the regulations the same, reduce the time frame of winter parking restrictions, or change to an emergency snow ordinance,” Smith said.

  The city’s Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) considered the different options. An emergency snow ordinance would require all vehicles to be removed from the street in advance of a storm. If vehicles are not moved, the city could have the ability to tow them at the owner’s expense.

  “This seemed likely to be expensive and difficult to administer. Part of the problem in administering a rule like this is that the city would have to be able to quickly and effectively alert all residents so that they could remove their vehicles within four or six hours of such a warning,” Smith explained.

  Following much discussion, TAC is recommended to the City Council to reduce or shorten the restrictions. That would change the current ordinance from November 1 to April 30, to December 1 to March 31, reducing the limit by 60 days.

  The City Council approved revising the street parking ordinance at its meeting November 11......

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