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Under Decatur's 2022 boundary tree agreement, the owner or co-owner of a boundary tree signs to let a builder destroy or impact it during work under a city building or land disturbance permit. For a tree that is impacted but kept, the neighbor also receives a paid treatment plan from a certified arborist, accepted by the City Arborist. Talk to your neighbor before a sewer trench goes near a shared tree.

Work that disturbs the city's right of way needs a Right of Way Permit, with a $50 permit fee and a performance bond that the city sets for a street cut. Those costs are part of sewer line repair that reaches the street. The permit also needs either the contractor's liability insurance certificate or a letter in which the property owner accepts liability, so ask which one your job will use.

The city's permit page lists any work inside one of its five local historic districts as needing a building permit, and the Historic Preservation Commission approves a project there before that permit is issued. Projects take a $35 certificate of appropriateness, or some are cleared by staff with a $10 certificate of exemption. Get one of those certificates before work starts.

The property owner pays a canopy loss fee to the city's tree bank for any protected tree removed. Under the city's January 2022 standards, the fee is the tree's yearly benefit, figured with the National Tree Benefit Calculator, multiplied by five, for each tree rated fair or better. The City Arborist can waive it for an owner-occupied home with a bona fide hardship, so weigh that fee before choosing removal over working around a tree.

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