A townhome winter has its own geometry: shared lanes, guest rows, and the short walks that run from every front door out to the curb. Beaver Creek Townhomes clears all of it in Sterling Heights, where the gray comes in off Lake St. Clair and lays a storm across the mile-road grid while the neighborhood is still asleep. Plow the lanes first, then the steps and entries, then salt the shaded corners where ice likes to hide. By the time the first commuters swing out toward Van Dyke, the pavement is dark and wet and the banks are stacked where they won't block anyone's view of the turn. Ordinary work, finished early — and a hundred people get to leave on time because of it.