Leander, TX Landscaping Rules: Tree Trimming (2026)

4, "Exterior Property Maintenance," to spell out that premises must stay free of excess plant growth and lists specific vegetation hazards as public health and safety violations: dead or dying trees that affect public health and safety must be removed, damaged trees that pose a hazard must be trimmed, and diseased or insect-infested trees, shrubs or vegetation must be removed. The clearance rule at the center of the section requires trees, shrubs and "all other vegetation" to be maintained so as to allow a vertical clearance of at least seven feet above any sidewalk surface and fourteen feet above the roadway pavement, and requires anything along a roadway, including boulders and other objects, to sit at least one foot back from the paved edge while still preserving that fourteen-foot overhead clearance.

06) for the companion weed-height rule and folds vegetation maintenance into the same enforcement track as the rest of the property maintenance code. 3 or send its own crew (a city employee or hired contractor) onto the property to cut and destroy the vegetation, with the cost of that removal charged back to the owner or responsible agent. 03, division 9.