Overgrown lots, heavy brush, honeysuckle thickets and small trees, cleared and hauled off, not mulched and left on your ground. We're based in Lexington, so there's no drive time priced into a Fayette County job.
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Most people who call us about an overgrown lot in Lexington aren't starting a landscaping project. They got a letter. Here's the rule that letter is about.
The ordinance reads that it is "unlawful for the owner to permit any weeds, or grass, edible or not, to grow to a height exceeding ten (10) inches anywhere on such premises." It applies whether or not anyone lives there, vacant lots and rental properties included.
The code also names specific plants that are not allowed to stand regardless of height:
There are real exemptions, and they matter if you own acreage. A property over one acre that is known to be non-buildable only has to keep an eight-foot buffer where it meets developed property. Agricultural land is exempt. And deliberate native plantings for naturalisation are permitted if they're properly maintained: a wildflower meadow is not a violation; a neglected one can be.
Enforcement runs through a code enforcement board rather than a court, under KRS 65.8801 to 65.8839.
This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice. The code changes, and your situation may fall under an exemption or an overlay we can't see from a photo. For what applies to your specific address, call LFUCG Code Enforcement on (859) 258-3091 or read §12-2 in full
Every job here ends the same way: the material on a truck and off your property. See the full land clearing service
The one that comes with a deadline attached.
Vacant lots, rentals between tenants, and back halves of properties that got away over a couple of summers, including the dense thickets along fence lines and creek banks, which in Fayette County usually means bush honeysuckle. This is the job most often driven by the ten-inch rule above.
Overgrown lot clearing, in detail
Under about 20 feet. Taller than that is a tree service.
Volunteer trees, scrub growth along fences and the stumps they leave. We say the limit out loud because being told it on the day is worse than being told it now.
Tree removal & stump grinding
Clearing to a plan, not just to tidy.
Getting a Lexington building lot, pad, drive or outbuilding site ready to work on. The job Kolton hired us for, below.
Site preparation
Bringing ground back that stopped being grazed.
Fayette County has a lot of small acreage that was pasture within living memory. Reclaiming it is a different job from clearing a suburban lot, and it's priced differently.
Pasture & field reclamation
Driveways, fence lines, access routes.
Clearing a line rather than an area: getting equipment in, getting sight lines back at the end of a drive, keeping a fence line workable.
Right-of-way clearingIf you're clearing brush anywhere in the Bluegrass, you're probably clearing bush honeysuckle. It's worth knowing what that means before you pay anyone to cut it.
Amur bush honeysuckle spreads by birds eating the fruit and dropping the seed, and a mature plant can put out enormous numbers of them. It leafs out earlier in spring and holds its leaves later in autumn than the native plants around it, so it gets a longer growing season than anything competing with it.
That's why ground can go from manageable to impassable in two or three seasons without anyone doing anything wrong.
We cut it, load it and haul it off: you get the ground back, and if you're working to a code deadline, you're compliant. But cutting alone doesn't kill honeysuckle. It resprouts from the stump, and lasting control takes either repeated cutting over several years or herbicide treatment of the cut stumps.
We clear and haul; we don't spray. Your county Extension office will tell you what to use on the stumps and when, and it's a far cheaper job once we've cut the thicket down to them.
Extremely helpful and nice, was hired for land clearing and site preparation they removed pesky honey suckle. Definitely going to hire them in the future.
Published ranges, not "call for pricing". You get a firm number before anything starts, and you only pay for work completed.
Light brush and undergrowth. A back corner, a side yard, a fence line that's got away from you.
Dense brush and small trees. The full honeysuckle thicket, or a lot that hasn't been touched in years.
Clearing plus rough grading, worked to your plan rather than to a tidy-up.
PLACEHOLDER: three real Fayette County jobs, before and after. Name the neighborhood and what was cleared in each caption; that detail is what makes this section impossible for a competitor to copy.
We're based here, so a Lexington job carries no drive time in the number. These are the parts of the city we're in most often.
Outside Fayette County? We clear land across Central Kentucky: Richmond, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. Note that the ten-inch rule above is Fayette County's: other counties set their own.
Very quick from contact to in home to remove some flooring. Once on site they got straight to work and did an outstanding job! Very reasonable price for the work done. Will continue to use them for all future needs.
Very hard workers that cleaned out a whole house that was trashed and filthy. Very polite and considered. Would definitely recommend this company!
If yours isn't here, call: we'd rather answer it before you book than after.
Say so when you send the photos. We'll tell you straight away whether we can get to it in time rather than letting you find out later.
(859) 213-6077Ten inches. Lexington-Fayette's Code of Ordinances §12-2(c)(4)(b) makes it unlawful to let weeds or grass exceed ten inches anywhere on a property, and it names thistle, jimson, burdock, ragweed and poison hemlock as not permitted regardless of height. Land over one acre that is known to be non-buildable only needs an eight-foot buffer where it meets developed property, and agricultural land is exempt. For what applies to your address, LFUCG Code Enforcement is (859) 258-3091.
Yes, unless it's treated. Bush honeysuckle resprouts from the stump, so cutting alone doesn't kill it: lasting control takes repeated cutting over several years or herbicide treatment of the cut stumps. We clear and haul the material, which gets your ground back and gets you compliant; we don't spray. Your county Extension office can advise on stump treatment, and it's a much smaller job once the thicket is down.
We haul it away. That's the main difference between us and a forestry mulching outfit: mulching grinds the brush and leaves the chips on your ground. We run our own trucks and dumpsters, so the material leaves the property and the haul-off is priced into the quote rather than added afterwards.
Under roughly 20 feet, and we grind the stumps those leave. Anything taller is a job for a tree service: we'd rather tell you that now than on the day. Volunteer trees and scrub growth along fence lines are squarely in scope.
A small residential lot with light brush and undergrowth runs $400 to $1,200. A medium or overgrown lot with dense brush and small trees runs $1,200 to $3,500 and up. Full site preparation is quoted on the plan. Price moves on property size, vegetation density, accessibility and whether the material is hauled away. Because we're based in Lexington, no drive time is priced into a Fayette County job.
No. Two or three photos and your ZIP are enough to price most clearing jobs, and plenty of the lots we clear belong to people who live somewhere else. We'll send photos of the finished job.
Two or three photos and your ZIP is enough: no site visit, no callback to wait on. If there's a date on a notice, tell us and we'll be straight with you about whether we can hit it.
