Macomb County government issues no tree-removal permit for private property. Any tree-removal or woodland-preservation permit comes from your city, village, or township. The County's only permit touchpoint is soil erosion: stump removal and grubbing that is part of a regulated earth change requires a Public Works permit.
Macomb County does not administer a tree-removal or tree-preservation permit program for private residential land. Michigan municipalities that require permits to remove protected, heritage, or woodland trees adopt those ordinances at the city/village/township level, so any tree-removal permit you may need is issued by your local jurisdiction, not the County. The one county-issued permit that tree work can trigger is the soil-erosion permit. Under the Macomb County Soil Erosion Ordinance, administered by the Public Works Commissioner as the designated County Enforcing Agency, a permit is required before an earth change that 'disturbs 1 or more acres of land or which is within 500 feet of the water's edge of a lake, stream, or drain,' and a permit must be obtained
Removing a protected tree without a required local permit is enforced by the municipality (often replacement plantings or a civil-infraction fine). At the county level, undertaking a regulated earth change, including stump/shrub grubbing, without a soil-erosion permit makes the person
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