Homeowners may remove trees from their own property without a city permit. Overland Park's tree rules cover right-of-way and public trees, nuisance abatement, and development landscaping plans. Single-family zoning districts are excluded from the landscape plan requirement.
Chapter 7.16 gives the Community Services Division authority over private trees only to order maintenance or removal when a tree is a nuisance or endangers public health, safety and welfare under 7.16.190.B, with emergency abatement under 7.16.190.C. It sets no application, fee, or approval step for removing a healthy tree. Section 7.16.200 makes the abutting owner responsible for maintaining right-of-way trees, and 7.16.195 reserves their removal to the City Forester. Section 18.450.040 requires a landscaping plan by a registered landscape architect for development plans, site plans and building permits, and item I requires that plan to show trees of 12-inch caliper or larger proposed for removal. Residential uses in Districts RE, R-1, RP-1, R-1A, RP-1A and R-2 are excluded.
Ignoring a nuisance-tree notice under 7.16.205 allows City abatement, cost assessment plus administrative fee, tax lien after 30 days, and municipal court prosecution.
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