Allen County has no ordinance requiring a permit to trim trees on private property. County tree rules appear only in the Zoning Ordinance's landscape standards, which govern required plantings for new development, not routine pruning of existing yard trees.
For a homeowner in unincorporated Allen County, trimming a tree on your own land needs no county permit. The county's only tree regulation is in the Fort Wayne-Allen County Zoning Ordinance (Title 3) landscape-standards chapter (A.C.C. 3-4-8), which applies to development-plan, site-plan, and parking-lot approvals rather than everyday pruning. That chapter does require required landscape plantings to be "properly maintained" for three years after a project's Certificate of Compliance and replaced if they die. Trees in the public right-of-way are handled by the Highway Department or, inside a city, the municipal forester. Indiana common law still governs a neighbor's overhanging branches.
No county penalty applies to trimming a private tree. On development sites, failure to maintain or replace required landscape material (A.C.C. 3-4-8-4) can be enforced as a zoning violation blocking sign-off; right-of-way trees may not be cut without county or
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