Menifee's code does not set a specific inch-height limit for residential lawn grass. Instead, overgrown or unmaintained vegetation is regulated as a prohibited public nuisance under MMC 11.20.020, and dry grass and weeds on unimproved parcels fall under the city's annual fire-season Weed Abatement Program, which can require 100-foot cleared strips next to structures and roadways.
Menifee regulates overgrown grass through two channels rather than a single numeric height cap. First, Menifee Municipal Code 11.20.020 (Prohibited Public Nuisance Conditions) makes it a nuisance to keep vegetation that is not maintained in a neat, orderly, and healthy manner due to lack of adequate mowing, grooming, trimming, pruning, fertilizing, watering, or replacement, vegetation that overhangs or obstructs public rights-of-way, or vegetation that creates or tends to create a fire hazard; Code Enforcement handles complaints citywide. Second, the city runs an annual Weed Abatement Program for hazardous or flammable vegetation, including dry grass and tumbleweeds, on unimproved parcels under Riverside County Ordinance No. 695 as adopted by the City of Menifee. Inspections typically commence around June 1 each year, abatement must be completed within 30 days of the initial Notice to Abate, and owners must keep parcels abated throughout the fire season (typically April through November), including 100-foot-wide cleared strips where the parcel adjoins a roadway or a neighboring structure. Acceptable methods are disking, mowing, brush-cutting, and/or handwork with removal of cut material, and parcels must also be kept free of junk and debris. A written appeal may be filed within twenty calendar days of the postmark on the Notice and Order to Abate.
Non-compliant properties are issued an administrative citation and, if necessary, subjected to forced abatement, with the city's contractor costs billed or specially assessed against the parcel. Nuisance vegetation on improved lots is handled by Code Enforcement through notices of violation and administrative citations.
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