In the older blocks around Stuart, the driveways are narrow, the porches are deep, and the alleys behind them can vanish overnight. Kalamazoo City Snow Removal takes the city as it was built: tight residential drives plowed without clipping the hedge, walks and steps shoveled, salt laid at the apron where the street plow left a ridge. That ridge at the end of a drive is the real enemy of a Kalamazoo winter morning, and clearing it well is a knack worth having. Snow arrives here in installments — a few inches Tuesday, a few more Thursday — so the work is steady rather than dramatic. By first light the street looks like a place that's expecting you.