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Committee backs ordinance language to exempt registered pollinator habitats from nuisance vegetation rules
Summary
Charlotte committee reviewed an updated pollinator-habitat registry, clarified registration and enforcement procedures, and voted to forward ordinance language codifying an exemption for properly registered and maintained pollinator habitats to full council.
Chair LaJuana Mayfield opened the morning session and turned to a mayoral referral on pollinator habitats and naturalistic landscapes, asking staff to review the city’s nuisance vegetation rules and the existing registry program.
Rebecca Heffner, housing and neighborhood services, described the registry launched in 2023 and recent program updates. She said landscape management will certify properties that are 50% or more native plant species for exemption from the city’s nuisance vegetation standard (which…
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