San Antonio Tree Removal Permits and Tree Ordinance Guide
Last reviewed October 28, 2026. Next review due April 28, 2027. By Forest, Property Intelligence Specialist, Ken's Tree Service.
Does San Antonio, Florida, have a tree removal permit?
The City of San Antonio's codified ordinances, Supplement 10, set no standalone tree removal permit for a private lot; that is a finding about the published code, not permission to remove a particular tree. The code instead addresses trees through landscaping, subdivision design, tower sites and city parks, so confirm the property's jurisdiction, approved plans and any newer requirements with City Hall before work. San Antonio Code of Ordinances.
This guide concerns the incorporated City of San Antonio in Pasco County, Florida, not San Antonio, Texas; the county comparison is our unincorporated Pasco County tree permit guide. The county tree section expressly applies to unincorporated land, while its general applicability provision also allows an interlocal-agreement route inside a city. Pasco County Section 802.2 and Section 103.1.
Ken's Tree Service has worked since 1996 from Tarpon Springs, across approximately 20 miles covering north Pinellas County, west Pasco County and the northwest corner of Hillsborough County. San Antonio is outside our service area, and this guide is a regional reference resource, not an offer to perform work there.
Do Pasco County's tree rules apply inside San Antonio?
Pasco County's tree-preservation and replacement section says it applies to land in unincorporated Pasco County, subject to its stated exclusions; it does not say that every property with a San Antonio mailing address follows the county tree rule. Section 103.1 separately establishes unincorporated-area applicability and says other provisions may apply in incorporated areas pursuant to an interlocal agreement between the county and municipality. Pasco County Section 802.2 and Section 103.1.
The city adopts the county Animal Control Ordinance in Section 10-32. Section 26-61 separately authorizes county noise-code enforcement within the city; neither adoption is a tree rule. San Antonio Section 10-32 and Section 26-61.
No tree or land-clearing interlocal agreement was located in the city code and posted city records or the county-side official pages and indexed records searched October 28, 2026; that search result does not establish that none exists. The county-side search covered the Land Development Code, the county Agendas and Minutes/CivicClerk listings and indexed Clerk official-record materials; its scope and access limits are described in this guide's beyond-code search section. City records, county Agendas and Minutes and Clerk official-record information.
Ask City Hall to confirm whether a county agreement affects your parcel and activity, especially clearing or development. For land outside the city, use the county's own applicability provision rather than treating this city guide as a county permit decision. Pasco County Section 103.1.
What trees, palms and dead trees does the city code protect?
The reviewed San Antonio code establishes no protected-tree diameter, specimen or heritage-tree class, palm-species permit list, or dead-tree removal exemption from a standalone tree permit. Its preservation requirements are project-based, not a citywide diameter-triggered removal program. San Antonio Code of Ordinances.
In plain words, the reviewed city code does not make cabbage palms the only regulated palms, and it does not establish a separate removal-permit rule for any other palm species. Trees serving a required landscape buffer or a project approval are a different question from an ordinary private-yard tree. San Antonio Section 82-14.
How do you measure a tree for San Antonio's rules?
There is no city removal-permit diameter trigger or tree-measurement height to apply in the reviewed code, so this guide supplies no city circumference conversion. Do not import a neighboring jurisdiction's diameter threshold into San Antonio's code. San Antonio Code of Ordinances.
Does a hazardous or dead tree change the answer?
The city's nuisance provision includes vegetation overgrowth constituting a fire hazard. It separately includes vegetation overgrowth serving as a breeding ground for flies, mosquitoes, rats or other vermin; neither paragraph designates every dead tree as a nuisance or creates a hazardous-tree permit exemption. The separate state-law route depends on documented risk and qualifying residential property, not simply on whether a tree is dead. San Antonio Section 26-32(4) and (6) and Florida Statute 163.045.
Does pruning a private tree need a city permit?
No standalone private-tree pruning permit, topping or hatracking rule was found in the reviewed San Antonio code, and no general provision equating pruning damage with effective removal was found; this does not override required landscaping, park restrictions or the residential corner-lot visibility rule in Section 82-11(c). On a corner lot in a residential district, that rule prohibits an erected, planted or growing obstruction that materially impedes visibility within the triangle formed by the street-line intersection and points 35 feet along each street line. San Antonio Code of Ordinances and Section 82-11(c).
The code then states its deemed-obstruction category in its own words. It does not deem trees an obstruction by name:
For purposes of this section, landscape buffers, hedges and fences (not including chain link fences or other fences with less than eighty percent solidity) exceeding 40 inches shall be deemed to be an "obstruction to vision" within the meaning of this section. San Antonio Section 82-11(c).
The property owner remains responsible for maintaining required landscaping and buffers in a healthy and orderly condition. That maintenance obligation is separate from the visibility rule. San Antonio Section 82-14(e)(1).
In a city park, the code prohibits damaging or cutting plants and injuring tree bark; it is not merely a requirement to obtain an ordinary private-tree permit. The state-law discussion separately addresses the statute's mangrove-authority limitation. San Antonio Section 38-3(a)(4) and Florida Statute 163.045(4).
Sign maintenance separately requires neatly trimmed vegetation around ground signs, rather than establishing a private-tree pruning permit. The sign chapter also prohibits snipe signs attached to trees, except as expressly allowed or exempted by its provisions. San Antonio Sections 74-12 and 74-136(11).
Exempt and invasive species
No city tree-permit exemption list for invasive, exotic or nuisance species was found in the reviewed code. That absence does not cancel a landscape-plan obligation or establish that a county exemption applies inside the city. San Antonio Code of Ordinances, Section 82-14 and Pasco County Section 103.1.
When does Florida Statute 163.045 limit local tree requirements?
Florida Statute 163.045 limits local requirements only when its property, documentation and risk conditions are met; it is not a blanket permission for all residentially zoned land or all unhealthy trees. Its residential-property definition requires a single-family detached building on a lot actively used for single-family residential purposes, as a conforming or legally recognized nonconforming use under applicable local land-development regulations. Florida Statute 163.045(1)(b) and (2).
Documentation means an onsite assessment performed under Best Management Practices - Tree Risk Assessment, Second Edition (2017), by an ISA certified arborist or Florida licensed landscape architect and signed by that professional. The owner must possess documentation that the tree poses an unacceptable risk to persons or property; the statute defines that risk as removal being the only means of practically mitigating risk below moderate under those assessment procedures. Florida Statute 163.045(1)(a) and (2).
For qualifying residential property with the owner-held professional risk documentation described in this section, a local government may not require notice, application, approval, permit, fee or mitigation for pruning, trimming or removal, subject to the mangrove exception. It may not require replanting for work performed in accordance with this section, subject to that same mangrove exception. The section does not apply to the exercise of specifically delegated mangrove-protection authority under Sections 403.9321 through 403.9333. Florida Statute 163.045(2), (3) and (4).
Commercial parcels, multifamily property, institutional sites and HOA common areas do not qualify merely because homes are nearby; the property's actual use and building must satisfy the statutory definition. The reviewed city code itself does not mention Section 163.045, so its silence is not the basis for this state-law explanation. Florida Statute 163.045(1)(b) and San Antonio Code of Ordinances.
What penalties can apply?
The codified general penalty, where no specific penalty is supplied, is a fine up to $500, imprisonment up to 60 days, or both, with each continuing day a separate offense; this is not a dedicated tree-removal fine. Section 1-15 traces to the 1985 Code, but the instrument and effective date originally setting those figures were not identified in the published history reviewed October 28, 2026. San Antonio Section 1-15.
Subdivision violations have their own codified maximum fine of $500, imprisonment up to 90 days, or both, and each day is a separate violation. City-park violations likewise carry a maximum fine of $500, imprisonment up to 90 days, or both, with each act and day separately counted. Section 78-9 cites Ordinance 97-03, adopted March 4, 1997, and Section 38-5 cites Ordinance 97-10, adopted October 7, 1997; the original effective-date clauses were not located in the reviewed records. San Antonio Section 78-9 and Section 38-5.
The older code creates a code-enforcement board. It also authorizes the city commission to contract for code-enforcement special magistrates. San Antonio Section 2-177(a) and (j). A recorded board-fine order creates a lien, but the code excludes foreclosure on homestead real property. Section 2-181(e).
Ordinance 01-2026 received its first reading June 16, 2026, and was adopted unanimously after its second reading and public hearing July 21, 2026. Its stated subject includes a citation-enforcement program and special-magistrate appeals of fines; the older code is therefore not presented as the complete current citation schedule. June first-reading minutes, July adoption minutes and July hearing notice.
Under the codified board procedure, Section 2-181(b) allows a fine of up to $250 per day for a first violation and a fine of up to $500 per day for a repeat violation, plus authorized repair costs, or a fine of up to $5,000 per violation if the board finds it irreparable or irreversible. Subsection (a) supplies the continuing/repeat-violation procedure and the stated repair-cost authority. The history cites Ordinance 2013-01, adopted June 18, 2013, but its original effective-date clause was not located; these are snapshot figures, not a verified schedule under the later citation ordinance. San Antonio Section 2-181(a) and (b) and July 21, 2026 adoption minutes.
What changes for commercial property, HOA common areas and development?
The reviewed code does not create a separate commercial tree-removal permit, replacement-per-inch table or tree-mitigation fund, but it does impose landscape and preservation obligations on particular projects. If you manage an HOA common area, multifamily site, business or institution, start with the site's approved plan and use, not the homeowner state-law route. San Antonio Sections 82-8 and 82-14 and Florida Statute 163.045(1)(b).
Existing buildings, expansions and approved plans
Section 82-14 applies across zoning districts. Its existing-building exemption does not apply where there is a change or substantial enlargement of use; substantial enlargement means a 50 percent or greater increase in floor area or units. Its abutting-property buffer trigger covers multifamily and nonresidential development or expansion beside residential districts or uses, and multifamily development or expansion beside nonresidential districts or uses, unless otherwise modified by Chapter 82. San Antonio Section 82-14(a), (b) and (g).
An existing-building exemption is not wording authorizing removal of trees from a previously required buffer: the section separately makes the owner responsible for maintaining required landscaping and buffer areas. For a PUD, conceptual plan modifications follow Section 82-8(l), with listed modifications excluded from that conceptual-modification procedure; the code does not say that every individual tree removal automatically is, or is not, a conceptual modification. San Antonio Section 82-14(e)(1) and Section 82-8(l).
If you manage a self-storage site, the supplementary zoning rules also incorporate Section 82-14's landscape buffer requirements. The separate residential corner-lot rule is addressed in the pruning section, not treated as a commercial-tree permit. San Antonio Sections 82-11(i)(2)c and 82-11(c).
Buffer standards that can affect trees
The abutting-property standards require a continuous visual screen using walls, fencing or landscaping, including compact evergreen hedges, trees or similar foliage; they are subject to the trigger and Chapter 82 qualification just described. The following is the section's buffer standard, not a tree-removal replacement table. San Antonio Section 82-14(b).
Buffer element | Codified standard |
|---|---|
Walls and fences | Required walls and fences must have at least 80 percent solidity at installation, measured perpendicular to the wall or fence. Section 82-14(b)(1)a. |
Landscape opacity | Required landscape buffers must reach at least 50 percent opacity within one year after certificate of occupancy and 80 percent within two years, measured perpendicular to the buffer. Section 82-14(b)(1)b. |
Buffer height | Required buffers must be six feet minimum and eight feet maximum; trees and hedges may exceed eight feet, while buffering hedges must be at least four feet at planting and form a continuous solid screen at least six feet high within two years. Section 82-14(b)(2). |
Landscape width | Required landscape buffers must be at least four feet wide, measured perpendicular to property lines, along the entire length contiguous to the applicable property line or lines, except as modified by Chapter 82. Section 82-14(b)(3). |
Multifamily or nonresidential uses abutting road rights-of-way have a separate landscape-buffer requirement, with planting before a certificate of occupancy. Grass, ground cover, trees or other landscaping can supply the landscaping, so the width table is not a fixed number-of-trees requirement. San Antonio Section 82-14(c).
Abutting road right-of-way | Landscape buffer width, measured perpendicular to right-of-way |
|---|---|
Multifamily use | The multifamily road-frontage landscape strip must be at least eight feet wide. Section 82-14(c)(1). |
Nonresidential use | The nonresidential road-frontage landscape strip must be at least four feet wide. Section 82-14(c)(2). |
Alternative at side or rear lot lines | A solid fence or wall is permitted when the city commission determines a landscape buffer is impossible because of lot configuration, topography or existing structures. Section 82-14(c)(3). |
All open storage areas require buffers under subsection (d), including storage of delivery or service vehicles, trash compactors and dumpsters. Required landscaped areas may not be encroached on by structures or vehicles, including construction equipment, or used for storage or sale of materials. For new construction, required landscaped areas may not be made impervious. Landscaping and buffers must allow public and private utility maintenance access. San Antonio Section 82-14(d) and (e)(2) through (4).
Site plans, submittals and sequencing
For a nonresidential project, Section 82-14(f) requires city-commission approval of a general site development plan before building permits. The nine required submittals identify the applicant, site, structures and landscaping. San Antonio Section 82-14(f).
The plan must give the applicant's and property owners' names and addresses.
The plan must show site location, streets, easements, north arrow, scale, topography and preparation date.
The plan must include a legal description.
The plan must show dimensions and floor area of existing and proposed structures.
The plan must show dimensions of parking areas, service areas and access drives.
The plan must show open space and retention or detention areas.
The plan must show total impervious and pervious areas.
The plan must include a complete plant list with scientific and common names.
The plan must show general locations of proposed plants and irrigation.
These are the code's general-site-plan submittals, not a separate tree-removal application. Each item comes from its corresponding numbered paragraph in Section 82-14(f)(1) through (9).
For a PUD, Section 82-14 is the landscape minimum. The general-plan notes must say no site clearance or alteration occurs before detailed site-plan approval. Before development commences, ten copies of a dimensioned detailed plan must be submitted for approval. The detailed plan must show the location and size of buffering and landscaped areas. San Antonio Section 82-8(e)(2)d, (f)(2)h.4 and (j), including (j)(6).
If you are building a pool, an addition or a new building, or demolishing a permanent structure, the city's current application guidance classifies these as extensive-review work requiring a site plan; specified new buildings, additions and pools also need drainage plans, with the exception that prefabricated sheds or screen enclosures do not need a drainage plan unless placed on a new slab. For the drainage plan, the page requires a "licensed engineer or surveyor"; Section 82-14 itself does not name an arborist credential for its plan. City application process and San Antonio Section 82-14(f).
Subdivisions, tower sites and drainage maintenance
Subdivision design must preserve existing trees and watercourses to the fullest extent possible as part of conforming to natural site features. This is a design requirement, not a separate tree-removal permit. San Antonio Section 78-4(c).
For a tower requiring a special-use permit, the city commission may waive the landscape requirements when the chapter's goals are better served. The standard requires a plant-material buffer screening the compound from residential property, normally at least four feet wide outside the compound. Minimal visual impact may support reduced or waived landscaping. Existing mature trees and natural landforms must be preserved to the maximum extent possible, with natural growth sometimes supplying sufficient buffering on large wooded lots. San Antonio Section 83-6(b)(7).
The tower application must include a landscape plan showing specific landscape materials. Engineering information in a tower application must be certified by a "licensed professional engineer". The nonrefundable tower-application fee is set by city-commission resolution to reimburse application-review costs, not as a tree-removal fee in this section. San Antonio Section 83-6(a)(3), (a)(4) and (b)(1)e.
There is a countervailing drainage requirement: areas needed for maintenance must be cleared of trees and underbrush that would interfere with facility maintenance. Treat preservation and maintenance requirements together in the project's design review rather than reading either as a general clearing authorization. San Antonio Section 78-10(c).
Applicants, construction controls and appeals
The codified preliminary-plat process allows the owner or authorized representative to file. A PUD transmittal may be signed by the developer or authorized representative, with evidence of the owner's agreement when the submitter is not the current owner. No city tree-specific company or HOA authorization form was found in the reviewed code or application materials; an association should ask Building Services what authorization accompanies its particular land-use application. San Antonio Section 78-3(d)(2), Section 82-8(f)(1) and city building-permit materials.
No tree-specific construction barricade distance, root-pruning protocol, preservation inspection schedule or per-inch replacement table was found in the reviewed city code. The city's building-permit FAQ separately requires contractor registration through Dade City and a current certificate of insurance naming San Antonio as an additional insured when submitting a building-permit application; that is a building-application requirement, not a statement that an ordinary tree contractor has a special city tree credential. San Antonio Code of Ordinances and Building Services FAQ.
If site work violates the stormwater article, its separate enforcement section authorizes cease-and-desist orders for the stated serious-risk or irreparable-harm circumstances. Persons responsible for a stormwater violation face the specified sampling, discharge-fine and treatment costs. The city may seek court-ordered restoration and mitigation of affected land or waters. These are stormwater-violation remedies, not a tree-replacement schedule or a universal stop-work rule for tree jobs. San Antonio Section 26-95(b), (d) and (f).
Subdivision waivers may be granted by the city commission for practical impossibility, unnecessary hardship or a proposed alternative consistent with the chapter's intent and spirit. The zoning board of adjustment hears appeals alleging administrative error in interpreting, applying or enforcing Chapter 82. Its variance authority is subject to the public-interest, special-condition, unnecessary-hardship and other findings and safeguards in Section 82-13(f)(2). An administrative zoning appeal must be filed with the city clerk within 30 days after rendition of the challenged final decision. Judicial relief from a board-of-adjustment decision must be sought within 30 days after rendition. San Antonio Section 78-8 and Section 82-13(e), (f) and (g).
The codified appeal from a final code-enforcement-board order must be filed in circuit court within 30 days of execution and is review of the record, not a new hearing. That route is distinct from a zoning appeal. San Antonio Section 2-183.
The older subdivision policy requires city-commission approval and recording of final plats and withholds specified public improvements from unaccepted, unrecorded subdivisions. July 15, 2025 minutes record adoption of Resolution 08-2025 designating an administrative final-plat and replat approval authority, so confirm the current route rather than relying only on the snapshot. San Antonio Section 78-1(c) and July 15, 2025 minutes.
For the citation program adopted July 21, 2026, obtain the ordinance's current appeal procedure and the instructions accompanying the notice rather than applying the older board-order route automatically. The July adoption record identifies special-magistrate appeals of citation fines, but does not supply the complete appeal mechanics. July 21, 2026 minutes.
How do you check requirements and apply?
No standalone city tree application or tree-removal fee was found in the reviewed code or current building-permit materials; this does not mean development review costs nothing. The process page lists a $25 review fee for permits approved by the Building and Zoning Commissioner. The FAQ labels its $25 fee "Same-Day Permit/Building Commissioner Review". Both pages list $175 engineering review below one acre, but conflict at one acre and above: the process page says $325 and the FAQ says $350. No instrument establishing those fees' effective dates was located in the code histories, city process page, FAQ, business-impact statements or posted meeting records searched October 28, 2026. City application process, Building Services FAQ and city records.
Confirm jurisdiction and prior approvals. Ask Building Services whether the parcel is inside incorporated San Antonio and whether its PUD, subdivision, landscape plan, easement or newer approval affects the proposed activity; the county code's city-agreement provision makes boundary and agreement checks important. City Building Services and Pasco County Section 103.1.
For building work, start with San Antonio. The city says Dade City supplies building-permit services under a local agreement, but San Antonio must approve applications before they go to Dade City. City Building Permits.
Use the current building application when that track applies. The process page directs submission of the Dade City application and supporting documents through the city's website, by email to the Permit Coordinator or at City Hall. The linked form asks for owner information. It also asks for contractor information. It includes a work-description field. It requires signatures and a contractor/owner affidavit. City application process and linked building application.
Confirm plans and fees with the office. Resolve the engineering-fee discrepancy before payment and request a project-specific estimate for additional new-construction fees; neither published engineering amount is represented here as a verified effective fee. City application process and Building Services FAQ.
Keep both cities' completion steps in view. Current guidance says new construction will not receive a Dade City certificate of occupancy without San Antonio's signed Certificate of Final Review. City application process.
Which office should you call?
City Hall and Building Services publish 352-588-2127. City Hall's street address is 32819 Pennsylvania Avenue, San Antonio, FL 33576. Its published hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. San Antonio City Hall. Code Compliance also publishes 352-588-2127. Code Compliance. Dade City Building Department publishes 352-523-5050 for its building-permit service. Building Services contacts.
What about city parks, street trees and utility work?
Section 38-3(a)'s conduct prohibitions apply to persons in a city park. In city parks, Section 38-3(a)(2) prohibits digging or removing trees and other listed natural materials. Subsection (a)(4) prohibits damage, cutting, transplanting or removal of plants and injury to tree bark in city parks. Route a park-tree concern to City Hall rather than treating it as an ordinary private-yard project. San Antonio Section 38-3.
Do not assume ownership of a street-side tree from its proximity to your yard; ask City Hall which right-of-way authority controls the location. A 2025 business-impact estimate describes a proposed ordinance on use of city rights-of-way, but the estimate is not the enacted operative text. City Hall and Ordinance 01-2025 business-impact estimate.
For communications-facility work, Chapter 51 has its own right-of-way rules: permits ordinarily precede work, with an emergency restoration exception and after-the-fact permit requirements where a permit originally would have been necessary. Those provisions apply to the communications activity they describe, not to every private-tree job. San Antonio Section 51-6(b) and (c).
Where do the current records and older code differ?
The San Antonio code used for this guide is Supplement 10, codified through Ordinance 05-2022, enacted November 15, 2022; later city records must not be mistaken for provisions already incorporated in that snapshot. The October 28, 2026 review covered every posted commission-minutes file from April 15, 2025 through September 15, 2026 and every posted regular agenda from November 2025 through October 20, 2026; no new standalone general tree-removal, landscaping or land-clearing ordinance was identified in that reviewed record. Site-specific zoning and PUD actions, including buffering conditions, are not erased by that finding. San Antonio Code of Ordinances, Agenda Center, Agendas and Minutes and June 2025 PUD actions.
The posted record includes zoning-map and future-land-use amendments and the November 18, 2025 adoption of comprehensive-plan Ordinance 05-2025. Condominium Ordinance 13-2025 was adopted December 16, 2025. Recovery-residence Ordinance 14-2025 was adopted January 5, 2026. Park-use Ordinance 16-2025 was adopted December 16, 2025. Parks-fee Resolution 13-2025 was adopted November 18, 2025. November 2025 minutes, December 2025 minutes and January 5, 2026 special-meeting minutes.
The citation program in Ordinance 01-2026 was finally adopted July 21, 2026, not at its June first reading. Parking Ordinance 02-2026 was adopted September 15, 2026. Golf-cart Ordinance 03-2026 appeared as a first-reading item on the October 20 agenda, not an established final adoption. That October 20, 2026 agenda also lists "Streets Tree Work". July adoption minutes, September minutes and October agenda.
Business-impact estimates describe proposals and impacts; they are not substitutes for signed ordinances, their exhibits or effective-date clauses. Likewise, conflicting website fees are administrative guidance, not a reason to select whichever amount is lower; request the governing ordinance or resolution from City Hall. City business-impact statements, application process and Building Services FAQ.
The next regular meeting under the city's third-Tuesday schedule is November 17, 2026; no agenda for that meeting was posted in either reviewed city listing on October 28, 2026. The city's Agendas and Minutes page says unlisted agendas or minutes are available through a public records request, so this review does not claim to cover unposted 2022 through early-2025 records or unposted future business. City meeting schedule, Agenda Center and Agendas and Minutes.
For rights-of-way Ordinance 01-2025, the archived city hearing notice says "DATE: Monday, March 17th, 2025". Minutes for that meeting were not posted in the reviewed listings, and the April 15, 2025 minutes do not mention the ordinance; its adoption status was not established from the online record searched October 28, 2026. Archived city hearing notice, April 15 minutes and city listings.
What was not found in the San Antonio code?
A whole-code search of Supplement 10 on October 28, 2026 found no standalone private-tree removal or pruning permit, protected-tree size system, tree definition establishing such a system, exempt-species list, removal-replacement table, tree bank or tree-specific removal fee. No general clearing or grubbing permit was found, but the PUD section expressly restricts site clearance before detailed-plan approval, and building, drainage and project-specific requirements remain separate. San Antonio Code of Ordinances and Section 82-8(f)(2)h.4.
What was searched for beyond the code?
The October 28, 2026 review checked the city's building-permit page, linked application, application process, Building Services FAQ, business-impact statements and posted agenda and minutes records for tree applications, fees, later requirements and county agreements. No dedicated city tree application or tree fee was located there; this is a finding about the reviewed online material, not proof that no unposted requirement exists. City Building Permits, business-impact statements and agendas and minutes.
For a county tree or clearing interlocal agreement, the October 28 search also reviewed the county Land Development Code, county Agendas and Minutes/CivicClerk listings and Clerk official-record information, and searched indexed official county and Clerk pages using San Antonio with tree, clearing and interlocal agreement terms. No applicable agreement was located in that review; the listing/index search was not an exhaustive examination of every recorded instrument or agenda attachment, and it does not establish that no agreement exists. County Agendas and Minutes, county CivicClerk portal, Clerk official-record information and county applicability provision.
Sources and scope
This is a documentary guide to the city code snapshot, current city guidance and the state statute checked October 28, 2026, not a decision about a specific tree or parcel. Its central limitation is the gap between the older codification and incomplete access to later operative instruments; confirm current requirements with the office before relying on a code-absence finding. San Antonio Code of Ordinances, City Building Services and Florida Statute 163.045.
For boundary-related reading, our Pinellas city-or-county guide concerns Pinellas jurisdictions, not San Antonio's law. This article's county parent is the separate unincorporated Pasco County guide.
Where does this leave your tree or project?
A private-yard tree, required landscape-buffer tree, subdivision-preservation tree and park tree raise different questions under the reviewed provisions. A tree may be a candidate for removal or pruning, but City Hall is the place to confirm the local requirements and any plan conditions for a San Antonio project. San Antonio Sections 82-14, 78-4(c), 38-3 and City Hall.
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