Down along Fourth Street, where Sioux City's old downtown storefronts and the Warrior Hotel still anchor the entertainment district, the same lots that get striped for weekend crowds each summer need a different kind of line work once winter arrives. Lines & Stripes runs those commercial lots and loading zones downtown, plowing them in the same tight, deliberate rows the paint goes down in come spring, so the striping underneath isn't lost to a careless pile of snow against a curb. A lot cleared before the shops and restaurants open for the day means customers can park where the lines say to, not wherever the drifts happened to leave a gap. Downtown's brick streets hold shadow late into the morning, so the north-facing spaces along Fourth Street often need a second pass with salt long after the open lots nearby have gone clear. Downtown cares almost as much about where a car parks as whether the lot got plowed at all, and that's the standard this crew works to.