Lee County imposes no replacement-planting mandate when you remove a tree from private property, and Alabama has no such law. Replacement obligations arise mainly for city right-of-way trees and for new commercial or subdivision development.
Remove a tree from your own yard in Lee County and you owe no replacement planting — there is no county or state replant ratio for private property. Requirements appear in two narrower places. First, the public right-of-way: when a city street tree is removed under an Auburn Street Tree Permit, the city may condition replanting or seek restitution for the tree's value. Second, new commercial and subdivision development: Auburn's and Opelika's landscape and zoning regulations set planting and tree-preservation standards on approved site plans. Neither reaches an existing single-family homeowner. Replanting canopy voluntarily still pays off — shade trees cut summer cooling bills and rebuild the region's tree cover.
No replant penalty for private tree removal. Failing to meet landscape-plan planting conditions on a development, or to replace a permitted street tree, is enforced by the city against that project.
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