Tree removal permit rules in Nueces County, TX — sometimes called heritage tree, protected tree, or street tree ordinances — list which trees require a permit before you can cut them down.
Unincorporated Nueces County requires no tree-removal permit because Texas counties cannot zone. In Corpus Christi, the Unified Development Code protects certain landscape and street-yard trees, which may require a permit or replacement before removal.
Texas counties have no authority to regulate tree removal on private land, so there is no county permit for cutting trees in unincorporated Nueces County. Removal is a city matter. Corpus Christi's Unified Development Code Article 7.3 requires landscape and street-yard trees on developed lots to be maintained and, where they are credited toward required landscaping, replaced if removed. Dead, diseased, or hazardous trees can generally be removed without special approval. Single-family homeowners face the fewest restrictions; commercial and new-development sites face the most, since UDC landscape credits are tied to those trees.
No county penalty. Corpus Christi can require replacement plantings and issue UDC code-compliance citations for removing protected or credited landscape trees.
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