Pruning or trimming a tree on your own St. Johns County home is unregulated. Florida Statute 163.045 goes further, barring any local government from requiring a permit, fee, or mitigation to prune, trim, or remove a residential tree once a certified arborist documents an unacceptable risk.
On residential property across Nocatee, Ponte Vedra Beach, and the unincorporated county, routine pruning of your own trees draws no county permit. Florida preempts the rest: Florida Statute 163.045 stops any local government from requiring a notice, application, approval, permit, fee, or mitigation for pruning, trimming, or removing a tree on residential property when the owner holds documentation from an ISA-certified arborist or Florida-licensed landscape architect that the tree poses an unacceptable risk. The St. Johns County Land Development Code tree rules apply instead to non-residential and development sites. Trees in the public right-of-way remain under county and city control.
Residential pruning carries no county penalty. Trimming or removing a protected tree on a non-residential or development site without the Land Development Code permit brings county code enforcement, replacement demands, and fines.
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