Rain keeps lawn services, code compliance officers busy

Staff photo: Joshua Lucero Joris Landscape Maintenance worker Jacob Hurt of Portales uses a weed trimmer at a Norris Street property. Lawn services and code compliance officers with the city have been hustling to catch up with increased growth due to recent rains.

By Joshua Lucero Staff writer jlucero@cnjonline.com

Recent rain fall has lawn services and the City of Clovis playing catch up with the amount of growth the moisture has caused.

Marcus Brice, chief code compliance officer for the city, said he has written more than 200 violation notices for weeds and still has 100 complaints that need to be addressed. And thats just in the past month.

A majority of it (the number of violation notices) is due to increased rainfall and a little bit of it is the fault of people not maintaining their property. said Brice.

Brice said that his staff cant go to one house without finding additional code violations in the same area as the complaint.

We can go to inspect one house and find 50 violations on the same block, Brice said.

Brice said even the city is having a difficult time keeping up with the weeds.

It seems like they (weeds) can grow a foot over night. said Brice.

Weeds more than 12 inches tall are in violation of the citys code, according to Brice.

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Rain keeps lawn services, code compliance officers busy