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Board reviews package of property-code updates on high grass, emergency abatement and parking
Summary
City staff described three coordinated ordinances to speed enforcement of high grass, create an expedited emergency abatement hearing and tighten parking-in-yard rules; the board asked for Spanish translations and consistent enforcement checklists.
The Little Rock Board of Directors heard staff presentations on a package of three related property-code ordinances intended to make neighborhood code enforcement more consistent and faster: updates to the high-grass (weed) ordinance, a new expedited emergency abatement hearing tied to structure closures, and revisions to the "parking in the yard" ordinance.
Cody Pritchard, senior deputy city attorney, summarized the package and the intended operational changes. On high grass, the proposed ordinance would allow immediate citations comparable to parking tickets, change the current notice window from a calendar-year rule to a 365-day period, and set scheduled fines ($50, $100, $200 tiers) for…
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