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There are sometimes limits on how many trees you can remove from your property if you fall within the pine barrens or other protected areas. Check with the Town, if he removed the trees improperly from a protected area, he will either be fined or have to replant trees or both.
Trees have their pros (pretty, nice shade in summer, windbreak in winter) and their cons (drop leaves and caterpillars in the pool, interfere with solar heating, might endanger house if not felled, obstruct view of the sky (for astronomers)). Your property=your trees. Do with them whatever you want.
If someone moves into an area which is heavily treed, they should respect the fact that people living within the neighborhood must the appearance the trees give and have taken pains to ensure the health of the trees. I had a major dimwit buy the property across from me and he leveled almost every tree on the lot, save for 3 large oaks on the property line. That was 6 years ago, and to this day, it is the only house for blocks which has so few trees.
As for astronomers -- the light pollution in most residential neighborhoods on LI seriously hampers viewing.
Wait are you saying it's illegal to cut/trim trees on your own property? I have around 20-25 in my backyard, no one would care if I cut all of them down.
Wait are you saying it's illegal to cut/trim trees on your own property? I have around 20-25 in my backyard, no one would care if I cut all of them down.
Yes, it can be. If the tree is covered by a preservation order, you live in a conservation district (such as the Pine Barrens), or if the house is in a new development whereby the owners are limited to cutting down trees through the agreement the builder made to only cut down a certain percentage of trees, then it would be illegal to cut down trees.
As we well know, just because it's your property doesn't mean you can do anything you want - there are zoning laws, covenants and other such hindrances that restrict your right to do whatever you want, whenever you want on your property.
we recently had to remove a dying tree from our property in TOBAY. We had to submit an application to the town, they sent someone by to inspect the tree and rule that it was indeed dying, then we received a permit (free) to cut it down. After the tree guy came and cut it down, the town came back to reinspect the property.
If the tree wasn't dying and we just wanted to cut it down, there would have been fees involved and/or the requirement to plant another tree somewhere on the property.
I thought it was a bit much just for cutting down one tree, but I'm glad that TOBAY has taken this type of initiative. I'm sure the system isn't bulletproof, but it's a good start.
There are sometimes limits on how many trees you can remove from your property if you fall within the pine barrens or other protected areas. Check with the Town, if he removed the trees improperly from a protected area, he will either be fined or have to replant trees or both.
Town of Islip considers first five feet of your property from the road to be theirs. If any tree is in that five feet and you want to cut it down, you need to get a permit from the town.
We couldn't stop his plan, but we called him for what he was. The house wasn't completed, we had put up enough hurdles to slow him down and cost him additional money that he sold it unfinished.
The new neighbor is planting all new trees and gardens. PHEW!
What did you all exactly do, what hurdles did you create that slowed him down, cost him $$ and then ultimately made him leave? I would like to know the secret to this.
What did you all exactly do, what hurdles did you create that slowed him down, cost him $$ and then ultimately made him leave? I would like to know the secret to this.
You have to be a royal pain in the patoot, be familiar with the code, and willing to put in a little research to see what you are up against.
As I don't know whether or not you could be this same individual, I won't post details on the public forum. None of our actions were illegal, but the details are very specific to this particular case.
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