Cheektowaga, NY Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

' It sits in the Exterior Property Areas section of the Property Maintenance article, which § 70-30 states is written to hold every property in Town, whether built on or vacant, to standards higher than the state Property Maintenance Code baseline. The same section pairs the cleanliness duty with related standards for unimproved and lightly used ground: § 70-31B requires residential yard areas outside access drives and walkways to be completely landscaped with ground cover established to prevent soil erosion, and § 70-31F requires garbage and refuse to be collected and stored in approved, rodent-resistant containers shielded from public view.

Because § 70-31D is not limited to occupied lots, it reaches undeveloped parcels and empty building lots the same as an occupied yard: overgrown vegetation, dumped debris, standing water or other hazardous conditions on a vacant lot are code violations in their own right, not just a nuisance question. Enforcement follows the standard Chapter 70 process: the Inspector who finds a hazard issues a written violation order under § 70-7 describing the condition and the remedy required, with a stated reinspection date, and the order can warn that the Inspector will remedy the condition directly and bill the owner if it is not corrected by then.