Before a Collinsville lot can open, somebody has to make it a lot again — four in the morning, headlights sweeping an unbroken white apron, the blade dropped at the first curb. Clearing goes in passes that leave the piles where they will not block a sight line, then salt across the entrances and the walks people actually use. Snow here is often wet and heavy, the kind that sets up like concrete if it sits, so early is not a preference but the job itself. Driveways get the same treatment as the lots: pavement showing, corners squared off, nothing abandoned in the middle. Clear from the top down, and open on time.