Coeur d'Alene, ID Landscaping Rules: Weed Ordinances (2026)

Section 8.08.020 of the Coeur d'Alene Municipal Code sets the rule. The owner or occupant of real property cannot allow uncontrolled growth or accumulation of weeds, grasses or vegetation over eight inches in height. Trees, bushes, and cultivated plants, flowers and agricultural products are excluded from the height rule. The same section also prohibits waste matter, nuisance trees or bushes, brush and vegetative litter.

The duty reaches past the property line. A planting strip is the area between the curb or edge of the road surface and the boundary of the right of way, and the owner or occupant must keep it clear too, unless the city official enforcing the chapter decides the strip is so attenuated from the property that it would be inequitable to require it. Where the owner and the occupant are different people, the code says the owner of real property is ultimately responsible.

The chief of police or a designee inspects under section 8.08.030 and, on finding a violation, gives notice to the owner or occupant stating the violation and the time to abate it (section 8.08.040). Section 8.08.050 sets the cut, trim or remove deadline at five days after receipt of notice, and one or more extensions can be granted on a showing of good cause. An appeal is filed in writing with the city clerk within ten days of the notice; the city administrator or a designee issues a written determination within fifteen days, and a citation can be upheld in whole or in part or overturned. If nothing is done, section 8.08.080 allows the city to send its own crew or a contractor onto the premises and bill the owner. Bills unpaid after sixty days can be certified by the city clerk to the county treasurer for the county property tax assessment.