Does Pembroke Park require its own tree permit?

Section 27-78 of the Pembroke Park Code of Ordinances states that permission for the removal, relocation or replacement of trees shall be requested by written application to the Town in a form provided by the Town and accompanied by the required fee. Permits for those acts on trees covered in the article are obtained by submitting an application on a form prescribed by the Town. Broward County enforces Article XIV here as well, and a county Tree Removal License is required.

Does the Pembroke Park permit cover relocating or replacing a tree?

Yes. Section 27-78 names three acts together, the removal, the relocation and the replacement of trees, and asks for written permission for each of them. A scope of work that moves a tree across a site, or that puts a new tree in where an old one stood, answers to the same written application as a scope that takes a tree out.

Tree Removal Permits in Pembroke Park

Q: What does a tree permit cost in Pembroke Park?

Section 27-78 sets the permit fee at $5.00 per tree to be destroyed, except as otherwise provided, and then caps it by property type. The fee does not exceed $100.00 per acre for all industrial or business uses. For multiple-family development it is $10.00 per unit to a maximum of $100.00 per acre. For townhouse and duplex development the ceiling is $85.00 per acre, and for single-family detached and cluster homes it is $15.00 per unit/per acre.

Q: Are any tree removals exempt from the Pembroke Park permit fee?

Section 27-78 exempts trees which are relocated, and trees which lie within a utility easement and are required to be removed in order to provide utility service to the property. It also exempts governmental agencies and applications for tree removals in areas dedicated to public use from permit fees, while holding them subject to all other provisions of the article, so a fee exemption is not an exemption from the application itself.

In Pembroke Park the Town's written permission reaches three acts, and removal is one of them. Section 27-78 asks that permission for the removal, relocation or replacement of trees be requested by written application to the Town, in a form the Town provides and accompanied by the required fee. Relocation and replacement sit beside removal there, so moving a tree across a site is inside the same application. TWQ Landscaping prepares and files these applications, and our ISA Certified Arborist (NY-6948A) produces the supporting report where one is required.

Does This Apply to Your Property?

Section 27-78 is written against the act rather than against a category of owner. Removing, relocating or replacing a tree is what brings the Town into the job, and the section states that requirement in those terms. It therefore reaches a standalone removal on an established built property, which matters on a finished site that simply has a tree to deal with. Whether a job is tied to construction is a separate question, settled by whatever else applies to that construction.

The fee schedule in the same section names the property types the article contemplates. It sets separate figures for single-family detached and cluster homes, for townhouse and duplex development, for multiple-family development, and for all industrial or business uses. It then treats governmental agencies and applications for tree removals in areas dedicated to public use on their own terms. An association, a condominium, a commercial or industrial site and a municipal property each find themselves somewhere in that list.

Broward County enforces Article XIV in Pembroke Park and a county Tree Removal License is required here, and our Broward County guide sets out that county layer. Which trees the Town's own article covers is settled with the Town, because Section 27-78 states its reach as trees covered in this article. That is the question to put to the Town first, since it decides whether a given stem is inside the application at all.

What Needs a Permit

The section states the requirement twice, and both statements name the same three acts. Permission for the removal, relocation or replacement of trees is requested by written application to the Town. Permits for the removal, relocation or replacement of trees covered in the article are then obtained by submitting an application on a form prescribed by the Town. A board that plans to swap out a declining tree for new stock is doing two of the three things the section names.

The form matters. Section 27-78 asks for a written application in a form provided by the Town, on a form prescribed by the Town. The instrument is therefore the Town's own document rather than a letter or a contractor's proposal. The application is accompanied by the required fee, so the form and the fee travel together and the amount is settled at the point of filing.

A fee exemption leaves the application in place. Section 27-78 exempts governmental agencies, and applications for tree removals in areas dedicated to public use, from permit fees. In the same clause it holds them subject to all other provisions of the article. A property that pays nothing still files, which is worth holding on a municipal contract or on work in an area dedicated to public use.

What It Costs

On a site of any size the number that bounds the total is the ceiling per acre rather than the charge per tree. Section 27-78 states that the permit fee does not exceed $100.00 per acre for all industrial or business uses. For multiple-family development it is $10.00 per unit to a maximum of $100.00 per acre. For townhouse and duplex development the ceiling is $85.00 per acre. For single-family detached and cluster homes it is $15.00 per unit/per acre. Those are the figures to take to a board.

Underneath the ceilings, the section sets the fee at $5.00 per tree to be destroyed, except as otherwise provided. The count of trees drives a small job and the acreage or the unit count drives a large one. Every figure in this section is a Town permit fee under Section 27-78, and the count it rests on is the count of trees to be destroyed.

Two exemptions sit in the same provision and both can move a budget. Section 27-78 exempts trees which are relocated from the fee. It also exempts trees which lie within a utility easement and are required to be removed in order to provide utility service to the property. Where a scope of work can relocate a tree instead of destroying it, the fee treatment changes with it, so settle relocation against removal before the application is drawn.

The section also carries a reduced rate for applicants who seek to destroy trees in conjunction with an agricultural purpose, and that rate comes with a condition attached to the land. It is charged only where the applicant submits a covenant running with the land, for a term of not less than five years. The covenant indicates that the land will serve an agricultural purpose and no other. We confirm the reduced rate with the Town before quoting rather than putting a figure for it here.

What Happens If It Is Done Without a Permit

Section 27-78 fixes the order plainly. Permission is requested by written application before the removal, the relocation or the replacement, so the filing comes first and the work follows it. What the Town imposes where trees come out ahead of that permission is settled with the Town, and we confirm it before work is scheduled rather than quoting an amount here.

The section does settle one point in terms, which is how far its exemptions carry. Governmental agencies and applications for tree removals in areas dedicated to public use are exempt from permit fees and remain subject to all other provisions of the article. Read that as the article's own view of what a fee exemption buys, which is relief from the fee while the rest of the article continues to reach the same applicant.

What to Check With Your Contractor

Ask for the proposal to separate the trees to be destroyed from the trees to be relocated, tree by tree. The fee is charged per tree to be destroyed and relocated trees are exempt from it, so that split is what a fee calculation rests on. Ask as well whether any tree lies within a utility easement and is being removed in order to provide utility service, since that is the other exemption Section 27-78 states.

Then check the arithmetic behind the ceiling. The caps run per acre, and the multiple-family figure runs per unit up to a maximum per acre, so the acreage and the unit count belong on the proposal in plain figures. Confirm too that the application went in on the Town's form, with the fee, since Section 27-78 asks for both together. Where a tree being removed to bring utility service stands near energized conductors, our crews stay at least ten feet from energized lines and the rest is coordinated with the utility.

What to Do Next

Three things are worth settling before tree work is scheduled in Pembroke Park. Whether the trees in scope are covered by the article, which the Town settles. Whether the work is a removal, a relocation or a replacement, because Section 27-78 names all three. And which fee category the property falls in, because the ceiling is worked per acre or per unit and that is the number a board will ask about.

We settle those before quoting. We inspect the trees and record species, size and condition, prepare the arborist report where the application calls for one, complete the Town's form, file it with the fee, and arrange the county Tree Removal License alongside it. TWQ Landscaping handles tree permitting for the properties we maintain across Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade: community associations and condominiums, commercial and industrial sites, medical and senior living campuses, schools, religious campuses, hotels, multifamily rental, self-storage, dealerships, retail outparcels, marinas, mobile home communities, municipal grounds and mixed-use. Call (954) 583-4752 or request a proposal.

TWQ Landscaping maintains commercial and community association property in Pembroke Park. See landscaping services in Pembroke Park.

The information presented on this page was accurate as of 23 August 2026.

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