DENVER -- Despite the forecast for heavy snow throughout the next 24 hours, the City of Denver says it will not implement its major snow event plowing policy Wednesday.

Public works engineers recorded pavement temperatures around 70 degrees yesterday, giving them confidence they won't need residential plows.

After the 2006-07 back to back to back blizzards, the city adopted a residential plowing policy for all snow events of more than 12 inches.

The city puts so-called ‘light plows’ on city owned pick-up trucks and trains city employees on how to plow side streets.

But, the city says the street your home is on will not be plowed this time around, even if we get more than a foot of snow.

"We do have a team of residential plows that can be deployed to the side streets, but we are not anticipating that we'll need to use them with this current weather system as temperatures are expected to be back in the 50's this weekend," said Ann Williams, director of communication for Denver Public Works.

7NEWS checked with the cities of Aurora and Arvada and -- they too -- do not expect to plow residential streets this time.

However, both of those metro-area cities will have private contractors on standby in the event of a snow emergency.

Denver believes it’s just not necessary.

"When we had the blizzards of '06-'07 we saw a lot of extreme icing and snow pack on the streets," said Williams. "That was because we had prolonged cold temperatures with snowfalls that were 12 inches or more consistently. We have to be really thoughtful and careful about putting that big of a program on the streets."