For development and land-clearing, Escambia County's Land Development Code (ch. 5, art. 7) requires tree protection, preservation, and mitigation or replacement of removed protected trees. Single-family homeowners removing documented hazardous trees are exempt under state law.
Land Development Code section 5-7.4 requires tree protection and preservation on county-approved development plans, and section 5-7.6 directs that existing healthy trees be preserved to the greatest extent practical, with removal minimized and mitigated. Removal criteria sit in the Design Standards Manual chapter 2. Penalties feed a tree restoration fund. Hazardous-tree trimming or removal on single-family residential property is preempted from permitting by Florida Statute 163.045 when backed by arborist documentation.
Failure to follow tree-protection standards subjects development to inspection failures, code-enforcement citations, penalties, and mitigation payments deposited in the county tree restoration fund (sec. 5-7.4(b)).
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