An overgrown-property notice from the City of Tampa?

The Tampa code provisions to check

Chapter 19 of the Tampa Code addresses property maintenance and structural standards. Overgrowth-related notices can cite § 19-50, excessive undergrowth, and § 19-49, excessive accumulations of debris, rubbish, trash and related conditions. Read each section actually cited; the job may include removal as well as mowing.

The city’s overgrown-lot guidance includes shrubs, trees, vines, bushes and weeds. This is not limited to a grass blade measured in the front yard. Ask the officer which conditions and which parts of the parcel require work.

We are not publishing a single Tampa height limit here because the current numeric scope was not independently confirmed from the accessible city code text. Use the current section linked above and your notice, or ask the officer to identify the applicable measurement. Do not substitute Pinellas County’s or another city’s rule.

Work with Neighborhood Enhancement

Neighborhood Enhancement identifies Chapters 19 and 27 among the ordinances it enforces. The department’s published general number is 813-274-5545. This is the government office; call us for our cleanup service.

Have the case number, address, notice date and compliance date ready. Ask whether the cited area includes any alley, sidewalk frontage or adjoining right-of-way. Do not assume the fence marks the full maintenance area or that a mowing notice authorizes protected-tree removal.

Board proceedings and court citations are different

Tampa’s Code Enforcement Board operates under Chapter 162 Part I and Tampa Code Chapter 9. If your case is set for that board, prepare photos, invoices and a concise chronology, and follow the hearing notice.

Chapter 23.5 separately establishes a Part II supplemental enforcement process with county-court jurisdiction for violations covered by that chapter. A citation lists payment and contest instructions. Finishing the yard does not by itself withdraw a ticket already issued.

For time extensions, identify whether you are asking to change an officer’s correction date or an ordered date. Keep the original date unless the authorized office confirms a change. Do not assume a hearing is canceled because work is scheduled.

Your Tampa cleanup and closeout checklist

• List every Chapter 19 condition on the notice.
• Confirm lawful access and any frontage or alley work.
• Arrange mowing, brush work and removal needed for those conditions.
• Photograph the same areas before and after.
• Send the case number, invoice and completion photos to the assigned officer.
• Request written compliance status and ask about any remaining hearing, fine or lien.

We provide emergency overgrown-lot mowing, bush hogging, brush clearing and debris removal. Tell us the actual deadline when you request cleanup; scheduling is confirmed after the work is reviewed.