3 rules for unincorporated Champaign County, Illinois.
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Unlike many Chicago-suburb ordinances, Champaign and Urbana impose no trunk-diameter permit on removing a private-yard tree. Permits and authorization apply to the city-owned parkway trees and to tree removal on development and subdivision sites, not a resident clearing their own lot.
Urbana runs a formal Legacy Tree Program that designates and celebrates its oldest and rarest trees, from a Bur Oak predating the Revolution to record sugar maples. Countywide there is no blanket heritage-tree ban on private lots, but Urbana's designated trees carry special recognition.
A Champaign County homeowner who removes a private-yard tree owes no replacement. Replacement and retention obligations ride on land development and on the city-owned parkway trees, which Champaign and Urbana replant themselves through active forestry programs.
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