The City of Hendersonville Planning Department issues a Tree Removal Permit — the application and a Tree Removal Permit Application Checklist are published on the City's Application & Submittal Information page. Tree-removal review is triggered as a required component of the Land Disturbance Permit under Title 18 (Stormwater Ordinance revised September 10, 2024). The Site Plan and Design Review Checklist explicitly requires a Tree Survey, Tree Replacement Plan, and Tree Protection Fencing on the grading sheet. Applications run through the Hendersonville Citizen Self Service Portal at css.hvilletn.org.
Hendersonville's Tree Removal Permit framework is integrated with the City's Land Disturbance Permit and Site Plan Review processes administered by the Planning Department (615-264-5316). Required documents from the Planning Department's Application & Submittal Information page include: Tree Removal Permit Application, Tree Removal Permit Application Checklist, Example Tree Survey, Tree Selection Notes, Tree Planting Detail, Tree Planting Island, Tree Planting Drainage, Tree Protection Fence Detail, Root Barrier Detail, and Tree Staking. The Site Plan and Design Review Checklist requires a Tree Survey, a Tree Replacement Plan, and that Tree Protection Fencing be shown on the grading sheet. The Land Disturbance Permit (Title 18 — Water and Storm Sewers; Stormwater Ordinance revised effective September 10, 2024) charges a $50 application fee plus a $10,000/acre (rounded up) surety, and Tree Survey/Tree Removal must be reviewed by Planning before the disturbance permit can issue. Applications are submitted through the Hendersonville Citizen Self Service (CSS) Portal at css.hvilletn.org, where the applicant creates an account and completes the application process. On unregulated single-family residential lots that do not trigger Land Disturbance Permit review, no tree removal permit is required for routine removal of healthy private trees. Trees within the USACE-managed Old Hickory Lake shoreline buffer require advance federal approval under the 2020 Shoreline Management Plan, separate from any City permit.
Tree removal without a required Tree Survey / Tree Removal review on a Land Disturbance Permit site is a Title 18 stormwater-ordinance violation enforced by Planning/Stormwater, and can hold up the Land Disturbance Permit, downstream building permits, and final certificates of occupancy. Removal in violation of a development-approval condition (tree preservation plan) is enforceable against the approval and against the property. USACE shoreline violations carry separate federal civil penalties.
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