Paulding County expects owners to keep lots clear of overgrown, combustible brush. With subdivisions pushing into the pine and hardwood around Paulding Forest WMA, defensible space is real wildfire protection here.
Paulding County code compliance requires residential and vacant lots to be kept free of dead brush, tall weeds, and debris that could carry fire. The stakes are highest where new exurban neighborhoods meet the wooded red-clay Piedmont and the roughly 26,000-acre Paulding Forest and Sheffield Wildlife Management Areas, where the Georgia Forestry Commission runs prescribed burns. The Commission promotes Firewise defensible space: a lean, clean zone within 30 feet of the house, reduced fuels beyond, and gutters kept clear of pine straw. Fall drought and dry spring winds make clearance a year-round job.
Code compliance issues a notice with a correction deadline. Ignore it and the county can clear the lot, bill the owner, and attach a lien for the mowing and administrative costs.
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