Fellow Winter Park Residents,

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NEW POST: Trees for Freedom

Celebrate freedom by planting a tree on your residential property!

The Florida State Legislature passed and the Governor signed a bill effective July 1, 2019 requiring that:

(1) A local government may not require a notice, application, approval, permit, fee, or mitigation for the pruning, trimming, or removal of a tree on residential property if the property owner obtains documentation from an arborist certified by the International Society of Arboriculture or a Florida licensed landscape architect that the tree presents a danger to persons or property.

(2) A local government may not require a property owner to replant a tree that was pruned, trimmed, or removed in accordance with this section.

As a practical matter, this means you no longer need a City of Winter Park permit to prune or remove a tree on your residential property, and you can no longer be required to replant when you remove trees.

Read the full post here.

Best Regards, Pete Weldon