Fairfield Municipal Code Chapter 27 (Community Preservation) requires properties to be maintained free of weeds, trash, and overgrown vegetation that constitutes a fire hazard. Overgrown grass and weeds are abated administratively, with costs becoming a special assessment on the property.
Fairfield does not specify a single numeric grass height (such as '12 inches') in its municipal code. Instead, Chapter 27 (Community Preservation) requires that residential lots, including those in 'the total absence of landscaping,' be maintained free of weeds, trash, clutter, and debris, and that weeds be removed when they may constitute a fire hazard. Vacant property must be kept in a manner that does not create an unreasonable risk of fire, which Code Compliance interprets in practice as keeping dry grass and weeds well below the height that supports rapid fire spread (typically a few inches in the late dry season). The City's Code Compliance Division administers complaints at (707) 428-7587. When violations are not corrected within the time set in an administrative citation, additional citations, criminal citations, or formal nuisance-abatement action under Chapter 27 may follow. Abatement costs (city contractor mowing and disposal) are assessed against the real property as a special assessment collected at the same time as property taxes, in accordance with California Government Code authority.
First contact is typically a courtesy notice. Failure to abate leads to administrative citations with escalating fines, city-contracted clean-up at the owner's expense, and a special assessment lien on the property. Repeat or fire-season violations can be charged as misdemeanors.
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