Keep Your Yard Looking Its Best All Year Long
Our quarterly yard refresh program is designed to help residential property owners maintain beautiful, well-kept landscapes. Each season, we provide a simple checklist of key tasks to ensure your yard stays healthy, attractive, and compliant with Town standards. A little attention each quarter makes a big difference for your property and our community. View the Refresh Checklist here.

JUNKED MOTOR VEHICLE:
§93.02 A motor vehicle that does not have a valid license plate attached or is wrecked, dismantled, inoperative, abandoned, or discarded is considered non-compliant with the Town ordinance.

RECREATIONAL VEHICLE:
§151.025(D)(14) Recreational equipment like boats, trailers, campers, and motorized dwellings can't be parked or stored in the front yard of a residential property. They can be temporarily parked anywhere on the property for up to 24 hours for loading or unloading but cannot be used for living, sleeping, or housekeeping purposes outside of designated areas.

REFUSE CONTAINERS:
§50.17 In street containers should be placed behind the curb or, if there's no curb, behind the ditch or street line, according to the municipality's collection schedule. Owners must remove containers within 24 hours after they are emptied and return them to their premises.

WEEDS AND NOXIOUS GROWTH:
§95.05 Includes trees, shrubbery and rank grasses, due to neglect, that overhang the public streets or sidewalks abutting the public streets; or weeds and rank grasses, left unattended for a period of time creating a nuisance or the appearance of blight.

Every owner or tenant of property shall periodically cause to be cut the grass or other vegetation commonly recognized as weeds and noxious growth on his or her property or the abutting curb lawn. It shall be unlawful for any such person to fail to comply with an order by the Town Administrator or his or her designee to cut such vegetation when it has reached a height of one foot if located in an undeveloped area, or a height of one-half foot (6 inches) if located within a developed area, except for those parcels containing five acres or more land area.

TREES PROJECTING OVER STREETS:
§92.02 It shall be unlawful for any property owner or occupant to allow limbs of trees on his or her property to project out over any street, alley or sidewalk at a height of less than 14 feet.

TREES OBSTRUCTING VIEW AT INTERSECTION:
§ 92.03 It shall be unlawful for any property owner or occupant to have or maintain on his or her property any tree, hedge, billboard or other obstruction which prevents persons driving vehicles on public streets or alleys from obtaining a clear view of traffic when approaching an intersection.