Collierville, TN Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)

Subsection (C) of § 95.05 of the Collierville Code of Ordinances is the large-parcel rule. A parcel containing five acres or more that fronts a public street or roadway, or adjoins a developed area, must be cleared of all weeds, tall grass and other noxious vegetation within 100 feet of the property line adjoining the developed area and within 100 feet of the pavement edge of any street or roadway adjoining the parcel, out to the pavement edge across the right-of-way. Natural wooded areas containing trees four inches in diameter or larger are excluded, and the owner is responsible for mowing grass and noxious vegetation only to the edge of the trees, including along adjoining developed areas or public rights-of-way.

Smaller vacant parcels fall under subsection (B). That subsection sets the height trigger at one foot in an undeveloped area and one-half foot in a developed area, and the code defines a developed area as a platted subdivision or lot of record. A vacant lot inside a platted subdivision is therefore measured against the one-half foot trigger, not the one foot figure. The duty reaches the abutting curb lawn, the strip inside the curb lines or between the traveled roadway and the lot line.

Subsection (D) is the enforcement path for both rules. If the owner or tenant fails to comply following a ten-day written notice, the Town Administrator directs appropriate corrective action on the property, including removal of the offending vegetation. After the work, the Finance Department determines the reasonable cost and bills the owner or tenant that amount plus an administrative charge of 25%. If the owner does not pay, the cost and the related administrative charges are placed as a lien against the property, payable to the Town of Collierville.