Plantation, FL Property Maintenance: Vacant Lot Maintenance (2026)
Key Facts
- Height Limit
- Twelve inches or three months' growth
- Trigger Distance
- Within 500 feet of a structure
- Notice Period
- 14 days from the letter's date
- Lien Interest
- Eight percent simple per annum
- Exemption
- Unmowable Plantation Acres SPI-1 land
Summary
If land sits within 500 feet of a residential dwelling or a commercial, industrial or public structure, Section 11-8 bars more than three months' growth of grass, weeds or brush, or growth reaching twelve inches.
The owners or occupants of land in the city where the land is located within five hundred (500) feet of a residential dwelling, commercial, industrial or public structure will not allow it to have accumulated thereon more than a three-month growth of grass, weeds or brush, or allow the grass, weeds or brush to attain a height of twelve (12) inches or more. If such conditions exist, the owners or occupants shall have the same mowed.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 30 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
When the growth crosses that line, code enforcement sends a certified letter, return receipt requested, to the owner shown on the property tax roll, and also posts it on the front door or on a staked sign covered in plastic. The owner has fourteen days from the letter's date. The code calls these courtesy notices, and says actual receipt is not a prerequisite to abatement or cost recovery. Vacant, unimproved land in the rural Plantation Acres SPI-1 district is exempt where woods, wetlands or thick natural growth make bushhog mowing impossible.
Violations & Fines
Miss the fourteen days and the city mows and assesses the cost as a recorded lien, coequal with state, county, district and municipal taxes, drawing eight percent simple interest until satisfied and enforceable by foreclosure.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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