A Champaign County homeowner who removes a private-yard tree owes no replacement. Replacement and retention obligations ride on land development and on the city-owned parkway trees, which Champaign and Urbana replant themselves through active forestry programs.
Remove a tree from your own established lot and no city or county rule makes you plant a new one. Replacement duties instead attach to two places. First, land development: subdivision and commercial site plans must meet landscaping standards and any tree-preservation conditions set at approval. Second, the public right-of-way: Champaign's Forestry Section plants, prunes, and replaces the 20,000-plus trees along city streets, and any planting in the parkway needs a free Public Works permit so the city controls species and spacing. Urbana replants aggressively too, including a cooperative program that shares parkway-tree costs with adjacent residents.
No replacement duty, and no penalty, for a homeowner removing a private-yard tree. A developer who fails to install or maintain required landscaping breaches a condition of approval, risking correction, withheld occupancy, or forfeited bond.
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