Title
Ordinance to Amend and Reenact Section 24-37 of the City Code of the City of Hampton, Virginia, entitled, “Unlawful Property Maintenance Conditions,” Pertaining to High Grass and Overgrowth in Areas Required to be Vegetated Under the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act
Purpose
Background Statement:
This amendment is proposed in response to questions regarding the exceptions to the high grass and overgrowth ordinance. The purpose of the amendment is to update the exceptions of City Code section 24-37, to specifically address properties located in the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Overlay Districts. Approval of this amendment would clarify that high grass and overgrowth are unlawful on properties located in the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Overlay District, and also allow for property owners to establish or re-establish vegetated buffers where lawns are currently present, under certain conditions.
Recommendations:
Rec
Staff Recommendation:
Approve the ordinance.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Hampton, Virginia that Section 24-37 of the City Code of the City of Hampton, Virginia, be amended and re-enacted as follows:
CHAPTER 24 - OFFENSES-MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL
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Sec. 24-37. - Unlawful property maintenance conditions.
(a) Accumulations of trash, garbage, refuse, litter, and other like substances. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any property, or any occupant or other person who is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of any property, occupied or vacant, including the area adjoining such property extending to the curb line or the paved portion of the roadway and/or the center line of an abutting alley, to permit the accumulation on such property of trash, garbage, refuse, litter and other like substances, except as may be placed there for purposes of collection in accordance with chapter 32.1 of this Code. In the event the owner, occupant or other person responsible for any property shall fail or refuse t...
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