Pasture & Field Reclamation
Ground that stopped being grazed.
Bourbon County is farming country. Reclaiming fields and paddocks is priced by the acre and is most of what we do here.
Pasture & field reclamationLand Clearing in Paris, KY
Overgrown lots, reclaimed pasture, fence lines and small trees, cleared and hauled off, not mulched and left on your ground. Paris publishes the tightest timetable of any town we work, and it is worth knowing before the letter arrives rather than after.
- Cleared material leaves the property: we run our own trucks and dumpsters
- Paris gives five days’ written notice, then bills the work to the property
- A vacant lot here has two different height limits on it; see below
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Five days, then they cut it and send you the bill
Every town we work will eventually abate an overgrown lot for you. Paris is the one that publishes how fast, and it is faster than people expect.
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Days’ written notice before the city can have it cut and assess the cost against the property
City of Paris, Code of Ordinances, Chapter 50, Nuisances §§ 50.200 to 50.202
Five days’ written notice. Under § 50.201 the city gives five days’ written notice to put it right. That is the shortest published window of any town in our service area, and it is short enough that “I will get to it at the weekend” is not always a plan.
Then the city can employ the labour itself, and under § 50.202 the cost is assessed against the lot as a lien, with a $75 administrative fee on top. You do not get to choose the contractor, the price or the standard of the work, and the charge attaches to the property rather than to you personally.
The height is ten inches on developed property, under § 50.200(A), excepting trees, bushes, flowers and other ornamental plants.
There is an agricultural exemption, but you have to ask for it. § 50.200(C) allows a property in bona fide agricultural use to be exempted on petition to the City Engineer or the code enforcement official. Note the difference from Fayette County, where agricultural land is simply exempt: here it is something you apply for. If you farm ground inside the city limits and have never petitioned, that is worth an afternoon.
This is a plain-English summary of a city ordinance, not legal advice, and codes change. The city is the authority on your address, on any notice already issued and on the agricultural petition. Send photos and ask
Land clearing work we do across Bourbon County
Every job here ends the same way: the material on a truck and off your property. See the full land clearing service
Overgrown Lot Clearing
The one with five days on it.
Vacant lots and neglected parcels inside the city, where the clock is shorter than anywhere else we work.
Overgrown lot clearing, in detail
Right-of-Way Clearing
Drives, fence lines, access routes.
Clearing a line rather than an area, and on a vacant lot, the boundary strip is the part the ordinance cares about most.
Right-of-way clearing
Site Preparation
Clearing to a plan.
Pads, drives, barn and outbuilding sites made workable rather than tidy.
Site preparation
Tree Removal & Stump Grinding
Under about 20 feet. Taller is a tree service.
Volunteers along old fence lines and the stumps they leave.
Tree removal & stump grindingA vacant lot in Paris has two limits on it, not one
This is the most unusual provision in any ordinance across our eight towns, and it is genuinely useful if you own an empty parcel here.
The boundary strip
Ten inches, within fifteen feet
On property with no structure on it, the ordinance holds the ten-inch limit only within fifteen feet of the boundaries. That strip is what the street, the neighbors and the code officer actually see, and it is what the rule is really protecting.
Which is a much smaller mowing job than the whole parcel, and a much smaller clearing job if it has got away from you.
The middle
Up to fifteen inches
The remaining portion of a vacant lot is allowed up to fifteen inches. The middle of an empty parcel can legally be rougher than its edges, which is the opposite of how most people assume these rules work.
If you own vacant ground here, clearing and maintaining the perimeter band is often the whole of what compliance actually requires. Ask us to price that rather than the full parcel and it is a different number.
Land clearing prices in Paris
The same published ranges as the main land clearing service. A page about one town should not quote you a different number from the page about the service.
Small residential lot
$400 to $1,200
Light brush and undergrowth. A back corner, a side yard, a fence line that’s got away from you.
Medium or overgrown lot
$1,200 to $3,500+
Dense brush and small trees. A full honeysuckle thicket, or ground that hasn’t been touched in years.
Full site preparation
$800 to $3,500+
Clearing plus rough grading, worked to your plan rather than to a tidy-up.
- Property size
- The single biggest driver, and the one you already know.
- Vegetation density
- Waist-high weeds and a honeysuckle thicket are different jobs on the same square footage.
- Accessibility
- Whether a truck and trailer can get to the work, or it’s carried out by hand.
- Haul-off
- Priced into the quote rather than added afterwards.
Land clearing jobs around Paris
PLACEHOLDER: three real Bourbon County jobs, before and after. Name the road or the part of the county in each caption; that detail is the part a competitor cannot copy.
Clearing ground across Bourbon County
CROWN’s own published list of the parts of Paris and Bourbon County we work most often.
- Downtown Paris
- Main Street
- Bourbon County
- Millersburg Road
- Lexington Road
- Cynthiana Road
- Bethlehem Road
Bourbon County ZIP codes40361 · 40362
Outside Bourbon County? We clear land across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester and Versailles. The rule described above is this town’s own; every one of the eight sets its own and the figures genuinely differ.
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Questions we get from Bourbon County
If yours isn’t here, call: we’d rather answer it before you book than after.
Got a notice with a date on it?
Send the photos with the address and a picture of the notice. Whether the date is workable is the first thing we come back on, not the last.
(859) 213-6077How long do I have after a notice in Paris?
Five days’ written notice under § 50.201, the shortest published window of any town we work. After that the city can employ the labour itself, and under § 50.202 the cost is assessed against the lot as a lien with a $75 administrative fee added. You do not choose the contractor or the price, and the charge attaches to the property. If you have a notice with a date on it, send us a photo of it with the photos of the lot and we will tell you straight away whether we can hit it.
How tall can grass and weeds legally be in Paris?
Ten inches on property with a structure on it, under § 50.200(A), excepting trees, bushes, flowers and other ornamental plants. A vacant lot is different: the ten-inch limit applies within fifteen feet of the boundaries, and the remainder of the parcel is allowed up to fifteen inches. That two-tier rule is unusual and it is worth knowing, because it can make compliance a perimeter job rather than a whole-parcel one.
I farm ground inside the city. Am I exempt?
Possibly, but not automatically, and this is the difference that catches people. § 50.200(C) allows a property in bona fide agricultural use to be exempted on petition to the City Engineer or the code enforcement official. In Fayette County agricultural land is simply exempt; here it is something you apply for. If you have farmed ground inside the limits for years without petitioning, that is worth sorting out before a notice rather than after.
Do you clear the whole parcel or just the edges?
Whichever you ask for, and on a vacant lot here that is a real choice rather than a technicality. Because the tighter limit applies within fifteen feet of the boundaries, clearing and maintaining the perimeter band is often all compliance actually needs, and it is a considerably smaller job than the full parcel. Tell us which you want priced; we will quote either and say which we think you need.
Will the honeysuckle grow back after you clear it?
Yes, unless the stumps are treated. It resprouts from the stump, so cutting alone does not kill it: lasting control means repeated cutting over several years or a herbicide treatment on the cut stumps. We cut, load and haul; we do not spray. The Bourbon County Extension office can advise on stump treatment, and the job is far smaller once the thicket is already down.
What does land clearing cost in Paris?
A small residential lot with light brush and undergrowth runs $400 to $1,200, a medium or overgrown lot $1,200 to $3,500 and up, and full site preparation is quoted on the plan. Acreage reclamation is priced by the acre. These are the same figures as our main land clearing page. If the job is a perimeter band on a vacant lot rather than the whole parcel, say so: it prices differently and usually lower.
Get a price before the five days run out
Photos of the lot, the address, and a photo of the notice if you have one. It carries the date, and the date is the only part of this that is not negotiable: we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
- Clearing several properties? Ask about trade terms