Brooklyn Park, MN Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

Brooklyn Park's Chapter 97 grass and weed ordinance treats vacant land differently depending on its size and platting status, but it never lets a vacant lot ignore its developed neighbors. 20(C)(6), a vacant parcel larger than five acres, without a habitable building, is exempt from the general eight-inch height limit only if it has a physical barrier separating it from developed adjacent properties; without that barrier, the owner must mow and maintain a 15-foot transition strip next to any developed property, and a 15-foot strip must also be kept mowed along every public right-of-way, street, trail and alley bordering the parcel.

20(C)(7) extends a similar rule to platted subdivision lots where 50% or less of the lots have been built on: those undeveloped lots must maintain the same 15-foot mowed transition strip along public rights-of-way, streets, trails and alleys, and any vacant lot that sits next to an already-developed property must comply with the chapter in full, meaning the ordinary eight-inch limit applies at that shared line regardless of the subdivision's overall build-out. 99.