Louisville has rolled out its “encroachment campaign,” reaching out to — and potentially penalizing — residents found to be in violation of the city’s open-space rules.
According to the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, which began reaching out to residents about the campaign on Aug. 1, encroachment can be perceived in a variety of ways.
Among them, officials say, the installation of private renovations, including of “gardens, landscaping, fences, paths, compost piles, mowing in excess of the city’s 10-foot buffer allotment, or storage of any personal property, yard clippings, tree trimmings, or other debris on city-owned public land.”
Aubrey Hilte, a ranger naturalist with the city, said Thursday that roughly 11 percent of Louisville homes bordering city-open public land have one or more encroachment violations.
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