What is the new ordinance that addresses residential property landscape?
The Richardson City Council recently passed an ordinance that addresses overgrown/unkempt landscape and vegetation at residential properties. The Neighborhood Integrity Office receives a growing number of complaints regarding the unsafe, unhealthy and/or unsightly landscaping at residences. Multi-family homes, office and retail properties are currently held accountable through the City’s Code of Ordinances, but similar codes or ordinances don’t exist for single-family properties until now. As a result of the lack of an ordinance, some property owners have allowed their landscaping to remain in a dead, dying or uncultivated state without being cited by Neighborhood Integrity. “This ordinance provides the legal basis by which Neighborhood Integrity can require owners to bring their properties into compliance,” Don Magner, Assistant Building Official-Field Operations, said. The ordinance is aimed at properties that are continuously left in a poor state of maintenance. The Neighborhood Int
