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A source-linked guide to Pinellas Park's tree protections, exemptions, pruning restrictions, replacement obligations and development review. Includes published fee conflicts and code-table ambiguities. Provided as a regional reference resource.

A source-linked guide to St. Petersburg's tree ordinances: protected trees and palms, pruning, the Florida hazardous-tree exemption, replacement planting, commercial development, fees and enforcement.

A Largo mailing address does not settle whether a property is inside the City of Largo. What Largo's code requires to remove a tree, for homeowners, property managers and builders.

Oldsmar requires a permit to remove specimen and resource trees, but its code also calls every tree 4 inches DBH or larger protected. Here is what the code says, for homeowners and builders.

In unincorporated Pasco County, removing a tree 5 inches DBH or larger needs a county Tree Removal Permit unless an exemption applies, including palms on single-family lots.

Published September 26, 2026. Last reviewed September 28, 2026. Next review due March 26, 2027. By Forest, Property Intelligence Specialist, Ken's Tree Service. Whether you need a permit to remove a tree depends first on which government your property sits under, and the answer can change completely at a city line. Pinellas County, Dunedin, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater and Safety Harbor each write their own tree rules, and they disagree on three practical questions: how big a t

Inside Safety Harbor a Protected Tree needs a City Tree Removal Permit unless a section 153.03 exemption applies. What the code protects, the fees and replacement rules for homes and for commercial, multifamily and HOA property, Grand Trees, dead trees, the Florida Statute 163.045 route, and the full development track for builders and contractors, read from the code itself.

Inside Clearwater city limits a protected tree or palm needs a City tree removal permit on every kind of property, and Pinellas County's tree ordinance is not switched off by the city line. The homeowner rules, the $15 fee, the $48 per inch replacement and penalty figures, and the full development and commercial track: building permit sequencing, submittals, barricades, clearing permits, right-of-way work and contractor exposure, read from the code itself.

Inside Tarpon Springs a non-exempt tree of 4 inches DBH or more needs a City tree removal permit, and a Cabbage or Sabal Palm needs one at any size. The homeowner rules, fees, replacement ladders, appeal windows and penalties, and the full development and commercial track: building permit sequencing, submittals, the 20-foot barricade rule, the minimum tree table, the Tree Bank, clearing and fill, right-of-way work and contractor exposure, read from the code itself.

Unincorporated Pinellas County protects every tree of four inches DBH and every palm six feet or taller, with a 24-inch homestead exception. The homeowner rules, the rating system and replanting tables, and the full development and commercial track: habitat permits, site plans, tree protection during construction, landscape minimums, clearing and fill, right-of-way work, contractor liability and appeals, read from the county code.

Dunedin's code says every protected tree stays on site. What is protected at 4 inches DBH, the exempt species, palms, Grand Trees, pruning limits, the $25.00 Tree Permit fee and replacement rules, plus the full development and commercial track: filing with the building permit, the Tree Preservation Plan, barricades, fines on the contractor of record, right-of-way work and appeals, read from the code itself.

Learn the hidden structural costs of emergency tree maintenance for HOA communities and why reactive management creates expensive operational risks.

Most properties carry more trees than anyone on site can name, and no record of what they are or what condition they are in. Here is what changes the first time a property's trees become individual records: which trees belong in one and which do not, what you can finally ask, where the multi-year plan and the annual budget come from, what happens to everything observed from that day forward, and what a tree record honestly does not do.