Lee's Summit, MO Landscaping Rules: Weed Ordinances (2026)

4 to bar weeds or plant growth over 10 inches on any premises or exterior property in the city, and separately prohibits noxious weeds outright regardless of height. 'Weeds' is defined broadly to cover all grasses, annual plants and vegetation other than trees or shrubs, but the definition specifically carves out cultivated flowers and gardens, so a maintained flower bed or vegetable garden is not swept into the height cap. Once the Codes Official serves a written notice of violation, the owner or agent in charge of the property has to cut and destroy the weeds; failing that, the city can send its own employee or a hired contractor onto the property to cut the growth and then bill the owner or agent for the removal cost.

3, the code's general notice-and-prosecution provision, on top of the abatement charge. The 10-inch rule sits inside Article II - General Requirements, the same article that sets the exterior-sanitation floor (Sec. 16-200) and the sidewalk/driveway repair duty (Sec. 16-202), so a single inspection can generate more than one notice on an overgrown property. Two carve-outs keep the rule from reaching agricultural and large undeveloped land: agricultural vegetation more than 10 feet from a non-agricultural zoning district is exempt, and a single contiguous undeveloped tract over 10 acres that isn't cut by a public road is exempt everywhere except within 50 feet of a road or of an adjoining residential or commercial property line, where the 10-inch limit still applies.