Tybee Island is updating its Land Development Code, last comprehensively addressed in 1971. Key updates include modernizing definitions, strengthening the tree preservation ordinance, and revising the ...

The Santa Rosa County Land Development Code contains a whole set of guidelines governing the protection of trees, and a fairly extensive list of trees that are considered protected by county ordinance ...

Nearly one year after Bend passed an ordinance to preserve the city’s tree canopy from development, the policy is at work. The result: nearly 1,500 trees will be torn down to make room for a large ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – St. Johns County is considering updates to its tree ordinance that would strengthen protections for trees, especially specimen trees, and raise fees for developers who remove ...

The city of Bend’s code to protect trees from development is on the line as an affordable housing developer mounts a legal argument that the new regulations infringe on state law. The public has a two ...

Sidestepping a thorny, long-running controversy, California officials have proposed a new Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, legislation that could streamline permitting for new housing, renewable ...

The Santa Rosa County Commission held a final public hearing Monday to hear and air proposed changes to its existing Land Development Code. After staff incorporates alterations approved at the hearing ...

Residential houses in the University Place neighborhood of Lawrence looking from the intersection of 18th Street and Indiana Street. Lawrence officials and preservation advocates are exploring options ...