Burlington is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, governed by the Boone County Zoning Regulations. The county zoning code does not prohibit or specifically regulate residential synthetic turf installation — there is no local ordinance restricting artificial grass in front, side, or rear yards. Installations remain subject to general landscape, drainage, and stormwater provisions plus any applicable HOA covenants.
The Boone County Zoning Regulations (administered by the Boone County Planning Commission, BCPC) contain landscape-screening requirements for commercial parking lots and buffer yards (Article 22) but contain no chapter dedicated to artificial turf, no minimum natural-vegetation percentage for residential lots, and no prohibition on synthetic surfaces. Boone County Code of Ordinances Title XV (Land Use) similarly does not address turf material. Installations larger than 1,000 square feet that disturb soil may trigger Boone County's Stormwater Management ordinance (Title XV, Chapter 152) requiring an erosion control plan, since synthetic turf changes a site's runoff coefficient. HOA recorded covenants — common in Burlington subdivisions such as Triple Crown, Beaverlick, and Camden Glen — are the most likely document to restrict synthetic turf.
Because no Boone County ordinance prohibits synthetic turf, code enforcement actions are limited to collateral issues — stormwater runoff complaints under Title XV Ch. 152 ($500/day max civil penalty per BC Code §10.99) or HOA covenant enforcement through private civil action, not county fines.
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