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Resident urges clearer notice on nuisance mowing; council votes to put notice policy on next agenda
Summary
A resident complained that a contractor mowed his yard without prior notice despite a nonnuisance native planting; council agreed to place a proposal to require door‑tag notices on the next agenda for consideration.
Dirk Turner, a resident at 315 Monona Street, used the public comment period to challenge how the city’s nuisance mowing contract is enforced after a contractor mowed or entered his yard on a weekend without prior notice.
Turner said he and his wife intentionally allow native plants to grow beneath large shade trees and that portions of the yard are not grass because of shade and allelopathic tree species. He said a contractor identified his yard as a…
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