Delaware County sets no countywide lawn-height limit. Each of the 49 boroughs, townships and cities sets its own maximum through a property-maintenance or grass-and-weeds ordinance. Lower Chichester Township, for example, caps grass at twelve inches.
Pennsylvania counties do not regulate residential land use, so there is no Delco-wide grass-height number. The limit is fixed by your local municipality under its police power and property-maintenance code. Numbers vary: Radnor Township uses a 12-inch standard, Lower Chichester Township caps grass at twelve inches, and other Delco municipalities that adopt the International Property Maintenance Code use its 10-inch default in IPMC Section 302.4. Cultivated flowers, gardens and agricultural crops are typically exempt. Check your borough or township code, or call the local code-enforcement office, before assuming a specific number applies to your lot.
Enforcement is municipal. Owners get written notice and a set number of days to cut; if they fail, the municipality mows the lot and bills the owner, and unpaid costs become a municipal lien on the property. Summary fines also
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