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VEGETAT.RES December 1, 1994 TO: Jim Johnson From: J.R. Medlin SUBJECT: Ve getation Abatement in the Publi Wav Hi Jim, Page 1 Bob Hammitt asked me to send you some info on our obnoxious and nuisance vegetation program. He said you were interested in the code and our policy regarding the maintenance of vegetation in the public way. While the specific language is spread out over several areas of the code we feel it places the full burden of maintaining all vegetation within the right -of -way to the abutting property owners. This does not change if the right -of -way is a 10 foot strip between the property line and a street or a 30 foot strip from the property line to the centerline of the right -of -way in the case of an undeveloped street. Our policy has been to hold this property owner responsibility to a maximum of 30 feet. This is based on an undeveloped right -of -way of 60 feet being split in responsibility between the two abutting property owners (30' each). In a few rare cases where the strip is larger than 30 feet for a property owner we have taken responsibility for the width over that amount. In particular on how our policies apply to the unimproved right -of -way of University Street which abuts the westerly side of the Masonic Cemetery, I would feel that in an abatement enforcement situation we would ask the residential properties on the west side of the undeveloped street to be responsible for the westerly 30 foot and the "persons" responsible for the cemetery to be responsible for the easterly 30 foot strip. I asked Kevin Foerstler who manages the obnoxious and nuisance vegetation program about the action history for enforcement at the cemetery. He told me that the most we have been doing is when we receive a complaint we then contact the cemetery trustees and ask them to take care of problems. The results of these contacts with the trustees has resulted in minimal amounts of work being accomplished.