When a grand tree is removed during development in unincorporated York County, Section 154.200 requires mitigation: extra tree-save area at 150 square feet per inch of DBH, replanting at 0.75:1, or a fee-in-lieu to the York County Tree Fund. Homeowners on existing lots face no replant rule.
York County does not make an existing homeowner replace a tree, but on a development or subdivision site the Land Development Code ties grand-tree removal to mitigation. A developer may preserve additional tree-save area at 150 square feet per inch of the removed DBH, plant new trees at a rate of 0.75 to 1 per inch of DBH, or, where those are impractical, pay a fee-in-lieu into the York County Tree Fund. No more than half of the removed DBH may be covered by the fee, and the fund pays for tree planting and canopy on public land and rights-of-way. Rock Hill and Fort Mill set their own replacement standards in site-plan review.
Failing to provide required mitigation for a removed grand tree blocks further non-agricultural development on the site. There is no replacement duty on an existing homeowner, and city conditions are enforced separately.
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