Asphalt Sealcoating in Maplewood, MN
Maplewood incorporated on February 26, 1957, by a vote of 5 to 1, partly to avoid annexation by Saint Paul and partly so 3M could operate under lower village tax rates. The land had been organized as McLean and New Canada townships in 1858, and the shift from farmsteads to subdivisions began in the 1950s. The census counted 18,519 residents in 1960 and 25,186 in 1970, then steady growth to 42,088 in 2020, so driveways here span every decade from the late 1950s forward, and no two blocks are quite the same job.
The city runs along the northern and eastern borders of Saint Paul in Ramsey County, crossed by Highway 36, U.S. Highway 61 and Interstates 35E, 94, 694 and 494, with Maplewood Mall open since 1974. Its street network is large for a mid-size suburb: 135.05 miles of city streets plus 31.79 miles of county roads and 13.15 miles of state highways, looked after by a street division that crack-seals, patches potholes, plows and sweeps. The driveway sealcoating page covers the products and timing that apply here.
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Maplewood's driveway permit rules and winter habits
Maplewood spells out when driveway work needs a permit more precisely than most cities. One is required to build a completely new driving surface, to reconstruct more than 50 percent of an existing one, to replace or expand a driveway, to upgrade from gravel, block or pavers to hard pavement, or to add a paved parking pad next to the drive. The Engineering Division approves a driveway plan before the permit issues. On a single-dwelling lot, parking and driveway area may not exceed 40 percent of the front yard setback, and work in the 5-foot side setback needs the neighbor's signed variance request.
Sealing and crack filling fall outside those triggers, since they neither rebuild nor enlarge the surface. Two other local details shape the work. A drive opening onto a county road needs permits from both the city and Ramsey County when it is rebuilt. And snow cannot go back into the street: the city's snow page says throwing or plowing snow onto the street is against the law, so banks build up along driveway edges. Coal-tar sealer is off the table under the 2014 statewide ban, and Maplewood also appears on advocates' lists of Minnesota cities that restricted it locally.
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Asphalt Sealcoating Services Available in Maplewood
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Maplewood FAQs
Does resurfacing half of a Maplewood driveway need a permit?
It depends on the share. Maplewood's trigger is reconstructing more than 50 percent of the existing driving surface, so patching a failed section or two usually stays under it, while tearing out and repaving most of the drive does not. Replacement, expansion, adding a contiguous parking pad or switching from gravel, block or pavers to hard pavement all need the permit regardless of size. Homeowners may pull the permit themselves, and contractors need a state or city license.
Why do Maplewood cul-de-sac drives see extra winter wear?
Maplewood clears a cul-de-sac by plowing the snow into the middle or to a chosen spot and hauling it away later, so for part of the winter a pile sits in the bulb. Snow also cannot be pushed back into the street, so owners stack their own on the driveway edges. Between the two, the ends of cul-de-sac drives spend more of the thaw wet than drives on a straight street. Filling cracks at the apron each spring and sealing on schedule slows the damage.
Is there a reason to seal a Maplewood drive in fall rather than spring?
Fall works if the weather cooperates, and September is the better half of it. At the airport station the low stays above 50 degrees on roughly 18 of September's 30 nights but only about 4 in October, and the median first 32-degree frost is October 10. A September coat also heads into winter fresh, which helps a drive that takes heavy snow-bank melt at its edges. Spring has the opposite problem, since May still averages about 17 nights at 50 or below.
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