Families, Parks and Recreation

The City’s Forestry program is responsible for the care and maintenance of the trees in the City right-of-ways over sidewalks and streets. Services offered include trimming and removal of dead, dying, diseased or dangerous trees on City property only. The City employs professionally trained arborists and an urban forester. The Forester can inspect trees on private property, but the City tree trimmers can only work on trees on public property. The property owner is responsible for trimming trees on or over private property even if the tree is rooted on City property or a neighbor’s property.

Removal of trees from private property requires a permit if the tree is larger than four inches diameter at chest height. The Tree Code Inspector will inspect the tree(s) and a permit will be issued if the removal is warranted. There is a permit fee of $25/acre for private property (residential) tree removals, and $50/acre for commercial removals. The property owner is responsible for the removal of trees on private property.

These services may be requested by contacting the Parks Division at (407) 246-2283.