Burning brush in city limits?

jmccracken1214

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I’m helping a friend clean up her yard and she’s got a lot of small brush/vines. Nowhere to really dispose of it but she’s got a big back yard with a creek running through it and we were curious who we would ask about using a burn barrel to get rid of the brush?

she lives in Lexington, just inside city limits.

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my neighbors get away with it by claim it's a 'fire pit' - they've stacked up some rocks right up against our shared property line and only burn on a west wind (straight across my deck). I hose it down for free for them when that happens.
 
my neighbors get away with it by claim it's a 'fire pit' - they've stacked up some rocks right up against our shared property line and only burn on a west wind (straight across my deck). I hose it down for free for them when that happens.

So...are they present when you appear with this hose? Or do you wait for them to abandon the fire before you begin.
 
A lot of places put the discretion in the hands of the Fire Chief. If they think it's too large, they douse it...and in some places, write a ticket.
 
I've always been told that if the fire is to keep warm or to cook over, then it is ok. Get you a pack of hotdogs and some sticks out there next to the fire and you are cooking.
 
I've always been told that if the fire is to keep warm or to cook over, then it is ok. Get you a pack of hotdogs and some sticks out there next to the fire and you are cooking.

+1 on this. We have always followed the rule of having a pack of hot dogs or marshmallows and sticks on the table by the fire pit.
 
I’d ask for forgiveness should the need arise, but if you can’t afford the ticket maybe rent a small chipper and turn it all into mulch.
 
If you’re in the municipal limits it’s against the city ordinance. They have brush pick up regulations. Look them up and you can dispose of them that way or you can haul it off.


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I've always been told that if the fire is to keep warm or to cook over, then it is ok. Get you a pack of hotdogs and some sticks out there next to the fire and you are cooking.
That's what my parents always did since "hot dog fires" were expressly permitted.

If you’re in the municipal limits it’s against the city ordinance. They have brush pick up regulations. Look them up and you can dispose of them that way or you can haul it off.
I have a house in an area where there is no municipal pick up, but it is technically in an incorporated district, though it is not listed on the muni-code site listed above nor do they have any police to enforce anything. I have a decent pile of tree debris from cleaning up the yard last year that I will add to in fairly short order. This thread prompted me to look for the burn permit, which I had heard mention of. Permits are free of charge, and issued by DENR online and the form I saw (linked to via the county page) says that they will not issue them to municipal areas that have debris pick up.
 
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