Lower Saucon Township Police said in a news release Friday that a property owner has been cited for allegedly violating the township’s “restricted vegetation ordinance” by allowing her lawn to become overgrown.
In the news release, police said Mary Spatz, of the 3400 block of Athens Court, “has not been mowing her lawn and has left the property overgrown.”
The date of the violation according to the news release is May 17.
The township’s restricted vegetation ordinance, which is part of the Code of Lower Saucon Township, is as follows:
[Amended 12-17-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-11]No person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity owning or occupying any property within the Township of Lower Saucon shall permit any grass, weeds, or other uncultivated herbaceous vegetation, to grow or remain upon such property at a height in excess of 12 inches within 25 feet of any property line or roadway. The growth of any such vegetation within the Township of Lower Saucon in violation of the provisions of this chapter is hereby declared to be a nuisance and detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the Township and its residents. The prohibitions contained in this chapter shall not be applicable to any stormwater facilities where such prohibitions would be detrimental to the proper functioning of said facilities, nor shall the same prohibitions be applicable within the boundaries of any riparian corridor as such areas are defined within Chapter 180, Zoning, of the Code of Lower Saucon Township; this restriction shall not apply to forest lands and tree lines.
