<p>In the time it would take someone to call the city, get to the right person to report this grass growing criminal, maybe a group of neighbors could get together and cut the grass. We never really know what people are going through. We moved into our new neighborhood a little over a year ago and my husband is very particular about our yard, our neighbor, not so much. So one day he their her lawn. They never said a word, he never said a word and he continues to cut it to this day. Not sure what all this denial is about, but it seems to work for everyone.</p>
<p>I’m allergic to grass and i still go out every week and do it (actually i just did it yesterday). I just put on a mask and go (some reason it helps).</p>
<p>Back to OPs question, I would only report if it was something hazordus (in a sense that it has a massive beehive, ant mound (fire ants are no fun!), snakes, etc) and if it was an actual danger to a person’s health.</p>
<p>Otherwise, i’d just leave it be.</p>
<p>Our lawn is babyed because we have to reseed it every year (thank you pine trees >.>) and i put a lot of work into it. There are some times in the summer where i’ll skip a week on the front due to it being short (it tends to do that when its really hot here), but otherwise, every wednesday its a mowin’ time.</p>
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<p>This made my week. Where is the “Best one-liners on CC thread?”</p>
<p>Don’t report me! I don’t know why the guy hasn’t come. We have him scheduled every two weeks, but we got a lot of rain lately and the weeds are very tall, and he’s behind schedule because of all the rain and really, we don’t mean to let it go so long… we’ll get to it.</p>
<p>Hope you are not in my neck of the woods !</p>
<p>No I don’t. Unless something seems to be dangerous or a crime, I don’t report my neighbors.</p>
<p>No, but a few years ago my neighbor asked me if I reported him! He told me that he was letting his grass grow for the seed! That was several weeks before he was reported. I guess other neighbors took notice and reported him. I did tell him that it was not me (it wasn’t), but I don’t know if he believed me. BTW, grass seed is not very expensive, so I don’t know what that was about.</p>
<p>I could never live in one of those neighborhoods. We let our backyard go to meadow and are slowly adding prairie plants. I have other things to do besides mowing and measuring the neighbor’s lawn.</p>
<p>One of our neighbors is a rental, not occupied at the moment because they have been remodeling it, however they live about 60 miles away & haven’t been down for a while so their yard does look pretty bad.
I would mow it for them, but we don’t have a lawn mower. ( or a lawn, neither does my other neighbor)</p>
<p>No need to measure -you know when the grass is tall and usually weedy !</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 >.></p>
<p>We don’t have any laws about lawn mowing here. Glad we don’t.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Never did though. Not that big of a deal.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Around here, if the grass got too long, someone would probably mow it for them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>( 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)</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone around here uses those toxic chemicals either.</p>
<p>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!?</p>
<p>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! </p>
<p>Sad situation in an otherwise nice, older established neighborhood.</p>
<p>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.</p>