The Park City Council directed staff to return with revisions after hearing detailed objections from neighborhood homeowners about a proposed municipal-code change that would alter property owners' mowing obligations on undeveloped parcels.

Staff presented a draft ordinance that would create an exception for undeveloped property owners by requiring them to maintain the first 30 feet of city right-of-way abutting their property and 30 feet from any adjacent developed property, rather than compelling them to mow the entire parcel. The change was described as an attempt to reduce the burden on owners of large undeveloped tracts while preserving sightlines and public-safety buffers near developed lots.

Public commenters, led by Prairie Hills HOA President Jennifer Cross, urged the council to reject the broad exception. "Limiting it to 30 feet won't help us," Cross said, describing multiple lots owned by a single absentee owner where overgrowth exceeded 5 feet and has been a persistent maintenance problem. She warned that the proposed language could "reward negligence and strip the city and our HOA of any ability to enforce maintenance standards" and raised public-health, pest and fire-safety concerns.

A second HOA speaker (Prairie Hills HOA secretary, identified in the meeting as Beth) added that HOAs have limited enforcement power and that reducing the city standard would “take a mile” where property owners currently fail to comply.

Council members debated alternatives, including exemptions tied to infrastructure presence, lot size thresholds, or separating commercial and residential undeveloped parcels. Some council members said the draft would provide needed relief for large-acreage landowners; others said it risked encouraging neglect adjacent to built neighborhoods.

After discussion, Councilmember Troy Hill moved to send the ordinance back to staff for further consideration; Councilmember Terry Osborne seconded. The motion to send the draft back to staff passed 6–1.

Staff was asked to draft revisions that could, for example, exempt truly large undeveloped tracts while preserving stricter standards for city lots with streets and utilities or for lots smaller than one acre. The council asked staff to return with clearer distinctions between residential and commercial undeveloped parcels and potential thresholds tied to infrastructure presence.

The item generated the meeting's most extensive public comment, with multiple residents and HOA representatives urging protections for adjacent homeowners.