No Scott County ordinance forces you to replant a tree you remove on private upland. Replacement obligations arise only where shoreland zoning conditions a clearing approval, or a subdivision or development permit requires plantings.
Minnesota sets no general replant-what-you-cut mandate, and Scott County imposes none on ordinary private tree removal in the townships; replacing a yard tree is voluntary. Replacement enters through permits. When the county allows limited vegetation clearing in a shoreland shore or bluff impact zone under MN Rules chapter 6120, it can condition that approval on restoration plantings to rebuild the buffer. Subdivision, conditional-use, and development approvals routinely require landscaping and tree plantings as conditions. Cities including Shakopee and Savage build their own tree-replacement or mitigation standards into site-plan review; the county relies on permit conditions rather than a blanket rule.
No penalty for choosing not to replant a private tree. Ignoring replanting conditions attached to a shoreland clearing approval or a development permit violates that permit and can bring a zoning enforcement order and fines.
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