Leaves and Yard Waste Make-up Collection Attempt

What's the Plan?

If your home had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date for leaves and yard waste, the Streets Division will be making an attempt to collect your leaves on Tuesday, January 7, 2026, and Wednesday, January 8, 2026.

If the weather allows, crews will deploy to this duty one more time on Friday, January 9, 2026.

Will crews get to every neighborhood that had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date?

The Streets Division does not know.

Collection progress will be slower than during the fall. They will do their best within the limited time to reach as many homes as possible that had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date. How much ground they can actually cover remains unknown.

Will the crews get all the leaves and yard waste?

The Streets Division crews will attempt to collect accessible leaf and yard waste piles from residents who had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date.

It is likely that some piles will not be completely picked up because parts will still be frozen in place or obscured by snow.  Also, the Streets Division may leave some piles behind because they are worried about damaging equipment or the terraces.  

It might not be quite as complete a collection as you are used to, but they are going to try their best.

Expect leaf debris in the road.

The Streets Division does not anticipate being able to use street sweepers to clean up behind the leaf collection operations.

During the fall, street sweepers trail behind leaf crews to gather up any leaf litter created by the pickup process.

In the winter, sweepers are down for an annual maintenance overhaul.

Plus, since street sweepers require water to work, they are generally unavailable to use in cold temperatures or on snowy roads.

How do you know if you had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date?

Enter your address into this form.  

Then click where it says "All yard waste set out dates."

The set out dates for the fall of 2025 will pop up.

Why is the Streets Division doing this for neighborhoods that had a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set out date?

Neighborhoods scheduled for a Sunday, November 30, 2025, set-out date never received their scheduled final pickup.

On Saturday, November 29, 2025, we received nearly a foot of snow. That led the Streets Division to suspend leaf pickup. The city then faced a prolonged period of cold weather, more snow, and the holiday season, all of which prevented an opportunity to make up the missed pickup.

The Streets Division finally has a chance to try to make up for the collection the weather forced us to miss.