3 rules for unincorporated Gloucester County, New Jersey.
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Gloucester County towns now require tree-removal permits. NJDEP's MS4 stormwater mandate forced every municipality to adopt a tree-removal-and-replacement ordinance, and street trees are separately controlled by the shade tree commission under N.J.S.A. 40:64-5.
N.J.S.A. 40:64-5
Exercise full and exclusive control over the regulation, planting and care of shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery now located, or which may hereafter be planted in any public highway, park or parkway, except such as are excluded pursuant to section 40:64-1 of this Title in the municipality for which it was created, including the planting, trimming, spraying, care and protection thereof;
New Jersey designates no statewide heritage trees. In Gloucester County, protection of notable trees runs through municipal shade tree commissions under N.J.S.A. 40:64-5 and, in the southeast, the Pinelands Plan's forest and vegetation-clearing limits.
N.J.S.A. 40:64-5
Exercise full and exclusive control over the regulation, planting and care of shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery now located, or which may hereafter be planted in any public highway, park or parkway, except such as are excluded pursuant to section 40:64-1 of this Title in the municipality for which it was created, including the planting, trimming, spraying, care and protection thereof;
Gloucester County towns now require tree replacement. Under NJDEP's MS4 stormwater program, municipal ordinances make anyone removing a regulated tree replant on a fixed schedule that scales with the size of the tree removed.
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-93
Every municipality in the State shall prepare a storm water management plan and a storm water control ordinance or ordinances to implement said plan.
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