Catoosa County, GA Landscaping Rules: Tree Removal & Heritage Trees (2026)

Section 4.06.04 sits inside the UDC's Street Tree Standards and addresses removal only in the narrow context of the street trees required under Sections 4.06.01 through 4.06.03, not tree removal generally across a private lot. Subsection A requires that any existing street tree removed by development activity be replaced by the developer. Subsection B ties the replacement species to the tree removed: it must be similar in size and species to what came out, or a native species appropriate for the county's Plant Hardiness Zone as identified by the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension.

Subsection C extends the same duty to attrition: a street tree that simply dies must also be replaced with a tree meeting the section's requirements. Subsection D assigns the ongoing replacement responsibility the same way the pruning duty is assigned under Section 4.06.03.A.10, to the property owner where the tree stood, the subdivision's developer, or a homeowners' association, and explicitly states Catoosa County carries none of that responsibility itself. Because this rule lives inside the subdivision street tree standards, it does not create a general permit requirement for removing trees on ordinary residential or commercial lots outside a development context.