Remind holiday visitors of street sweeping days

Published on December 06, 2024

Family and friends visiting Lakewood over the holidays may be unfamiliar with Lakewood’s parking and street-sweeping schedules and regulations that help keep neighborhoods clean and safe for everyone.

Help your visitors enjoy a joyful celebration by sharing these tips to avoid tickets:

• Share the street-sweeping schedule in advance. Street sweeping will be as usual on Dec. 23 and Dec. 30-31, but there will be no street sweeping on Dec. 24-27 or Jan. 1-3 and no makeup sweeps.
• On your street-sweeping day only, parking is allowed on the front and side lawns. 
• Any day, parking is allowed on the apron, which is the sloped area between the street and the sidewalk leading up to your driveway, as long as the vehicle does not overhang the sidewalk.
• Don’t obstruct or overhang onto the sidewalk. When parking in your driveway or on the apron any day of the week, including street-sweeping day, it is important to NOT obstruct or overhang the sidewalk. That creates a dangerous obstruction for pedestrians and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and state parking laws.

Street sweeping is cancelled when city staff determines it is raining enough that water is pooling or flowing in gutters throughout a neighborhood, which prevents effective sweeping. (Sweeping still occurs during a light sprinkle.)

In the case of a rain cancellation, sweeping in that neighborhood is postponed until the regular sweeping day the following week. For example, the cancellation of a Friday sweep means the next sweep in that neighborhood is the following Friday. No sweeping-related parking citations are issued on rain cancellation days. Contact customer service to verify if sweeping has been cancelled due to rain.

If you have any questions, please contact Lakewood customer service staff at 562-866-9771, extension 2140 or at service1@lakewoodcity.org.