Nassau County, FL Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

M of the Land Development Code lets the Nassau County-Amelia Island Tree Commission recommend an unincorporated Nassau County Amelia Island Tree Planting Program to the Board of County Commissioners, to be reevaluated at least every five years and paired with a financial impact assessment from the county manager and the office of management and budget before the board adopts it. The program's first priority is planting trees on publicly held land on Amelia Island, specifically naming rights-of-way and land owned or controlled by Nassau County and the Nassau County School Board, before the article turns to strategies for partnering with private property owners.

J, which also collects fee-in-lieu payments from developers who pay to cover up to half their required replacement inches and any fines the special magistrate assesses for tree ordinance violations. The article is explicit that the planting program is not meant to offset any private landowner's own replacement or landscaping obligations triggered elsewhere in the ordinance; it is additional canopy for public land and, where property owners opt in, private land, developed through public Tree Commission meetings with clear site-selection criteria.