oldfort

We used to live next to a house that was owned by a church. The pastor (minister) would live there. The yard always had a lot of weed and sometimes it didn't get mowed. A neighbor came by our house to suggest we should call the church to get them to take of the lawn better. H and I were New Yorkers, we didn't even know we were allowed to do that. Next time when our gardener came over, we just asked him to mow the next door's lawn. The message was delivered.

naueth

I agree with nysmile. As far as I'm concerned this seems like one the most idiotic things I've heard of to date. It's really nobody's business and should not be enforced. Thank god I live in NYC >.>

bethievt

We don't have any laws about lawn mowing here. Glad we don't.

notrichenough

I don't think we have laws about how high your grass can get. And we fortunately don't live in an area with a HOA, so we can let our lawns get as ragged as we want.

We do have a noise ordinance though, and I've been tempted to complain about my neighbor who liked to cut his lawn at 7:30AM on Saturday morning.

Never did though. Not that big of a deal.

MD Mom

Where we live, everyone takes care of their yards and about half have lawn services. We are battling the no shed, no boats or trailers, no stockade fence rules.

Around here, if the grass got too long, someone would probably mow it for them.

lololu

The only time anyone in my entire town reported anyone over lawn issues was when the new guy in town got Chemlawn to come out spray his whole front yard in the spring. Killed all his neighbors dandelions right at the start of salad season. Boy were the neighbors mad! No one in town took his side and the guy sold his house 6 months later.

emeraldkity4

I am so glad no one in my neighborhood uses chem lawn.
We do have a couple people whose services use blowers, which are annoying as heck, but in the 5 years that I have taken out my grass and had it landscaped, I notice that at least 6 or so other families on our street & the next block, have made the jump as well.

( we do have a couple large areas that could have been grass, but I planted irish moss & other ground covers that don't need mowing)

bethievt

I don't think anyone around here uses those toxic chemicals either.

abasket

We live on a boulevard. Our neighbors are fine, but the biggest problem is the boulevard which the city is suppose to take care it. We are cutting our grass at least twice a week but the city only gets their cutting done every 2 to 3 weeks. It's terrible! So who do we call to report the city!?

Some neighbors get fed up and head out to the boulevard area in front of their house and cut it themselves! The weeds are ridiculous. My neighbor was on the boulevard a couple of weeks ago with his spreader putting down weed and feed on the boulevard so that the dandelions etc don't blow seed on his lawn!

Sad situation in an otherwise nice, older established neighborhood.

emeraldkity4

We have landscaped medians and traffic circles that the neighbors have to maintain.
It seems that when they were put in,everyone was aware that whomever was closest would end up taking care of it, and occasionally we would have a big weeding or planting party, but over the years and people move away,the care gets more spotty.

icedragon

"We do have a noise ordinance though, and I've been tempted to complain about my neighbor who liked to cut his lawn at 7:30AM on Saturday morning."

If its gonna be 90+ degrees outside that day, I'd certainly get up early to mow it.

notrichenough

Where I live, it's not going to be that much hotter at 9 AM than 7:30 AM.

garland

When I was in college, my mom and my sister were the only ones still at home--my dad had died several years before. mom worked long hours, just barely maintaining the house, which, though not big, was on a big property. She and my sister kept the front short enough, but the back had turned into a gorgeous meadow (we backed up onto undeveloped woods.) Next door neighbor, had known our family for many years, called the cops on her. Gave her a summon and a fine.

So, my older brother came home, rented a tiller to cut most of the tall grass down, but left patches he edged with fallen logs, to look like we meant it that way--so still some long grass, but nothing they could complain about.

Twenty years, and they didn't have the decency to speak to her or offer a hand (four sons living at home). And for most of those years, they had a barking dog which they kept outside all night, and we never complained.

Never spoke to them again.

Consolation

I shudder to think of living in a place where people can be "reported" for not maintaining their yard.

Absolutely appalling.

happymomof1

Our HOA (townhouses) mows everything outside the backyard fence, and any area that is not obviously a flowerbed in the front yard. If you pull down your fence, they'll mow the backyard too.