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Highland Village staff outlines stepped plan to inspect and enforce commercial landscaping
Summary
City staff presented a plan to inventory approved landscape plans, use a contracted arborist for condition assessments, and route likely violations to code enforcement; staff said enforcement is limited by historic approvals and available code-enforcement resources.
City staff told the Highland Village City Council on April during an early work session that they have begun a program to review and enforce commercial landscaping requirements across the city.
Christen, a city staff member, said the city has mobilized a licensed arborist to compare existing site conditions against approved landscape plans and produce assessment reports that code enforcement will use to open cases if violations are found. “We only have 1 field code enforcement officer, and that's a large task,” Christen said, adding that the arborist’s reports will direct enforcement decisions.
City staff described the steps they are taking: compile known Planned Development (PD) landscape plans, assign one property at a time to the contracted arborist for a condition assessment, document discrepancies with photos, and then have code open a case and provide notice if the officer determines a violation exists. Staff said they plan to implement annual inspections once properties are brought into compliance, and to rely on the approved landscape plan for each…
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