Tree Removal and Trimming in Orland Park, IL
If the Village serves notice on a dead or diseased tree, §3-6-10 gives you “sixty (60) days after the date of service of notice or such other time as may be agreed upon by the Village and the property owner.” Sixty days is double the regional norm and six times what some towns across the state line allow. It is a civilized window — long enough to take two prices for tree service Orland Park and pick a date — but it ends with the Village doing the work and filing “a lien against the property for the amount of the costs of removal.”
Sixty Days, And Whose Parkway It Actually Is
The Tree Management Program at Title 3, Chapter 6 was substantially amended by Ordinance 5727 on 18 July 2022. The provision that catches homeowners is §3-6-7(A). It reserves to the Village “the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove trees, plants and shrubs within the parkways of all streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, squares and public grounds” — then leaves the parkway to be maintained by the adjacent property owner unless “an agreement for maintenance has been reached with the Village.” The Village decides; you maintain. Clearance is one figure applied unusually: §3-6-9 wants “a clear space of eight feet (8′) above the surface of the street or sidewalk,” the same eight feet over the roadway as over the sidewalk, where most codes nearby want ten to fourteen over the road.
Topping is banned outright. Section 3-6-8 makes it “unlawful as a normal practice for any person, firm or Village Department to top any street tree, park tree, or other tree on public property,” topping being “the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three inches (3") in diameter within the tree’s crown.” If a contractor offers to cut a village tree back hard, that is the section they propose to breach. The ISA’s homeowner guidance sets out what topping does to a tree that survives it. Two honest gaps: we found no private-property removal permit in Title 3, but landscaping and development-stage preservation live in the separate Land Development Code, which we could not read, and Appendix B carries no fine entry for trees at all.
Licensing, as far as the code shows. Title 7, Business and License, runs twenty-six chapters from liquor and solicitors to pawnbrokers and video gaming, and contains no contractor, landscaper or tree-service chapter at all. Any fee would sit in Chapter 7-2, which was not reachable, so we will not tell you there is nothing to file. We carry liability cover and workers’ compensation and send certificates before booking a date.
Six Hundred Percent Growth, And What It Planted
Henry Taylor settled here in 1834 and the railroad arrived in 1879, but the village that exists now is post-war: the county annex records that Orland Park “grew 651.9% between 1950 and 1970.” Orland Square Mall followed in 1976. Today it holds 58,703 people over 22.03 square miles, and the annex puts it at “approximately 75% developed” — so unlike its neighbors Orland Park still has ground to build on, and preservation decisions here are live rather than historical. That compressed growth left two tree populations: mature stock from the 1950s and 1960s now at full size, and much younger trees on the later ground. They want different work — reduction and deadwooding on one, structural pruning on the other. What tree service Orland Park needs therefore depends more on the decade a street went in than on the address.
Water is the other constant. Tinley Creek, Marley Creek and Crystal Creek all cross the village, along with Lake Sedgewick and McGinnis Slough, and the annex names 143rd Street, Wolf Road, Highland Avenue, Southwest Highway, Will-Cook Road and LaGrange Road as flood-prone, with the Catalina and Fernway subdivisions. Five properties carry FEMA repetitive-loss status and one is severe, none yet mitigated, and the village has recorded 23 federal disaster declarations since 1967. It has been a Tree City USA since 1998, the longest unbroken run in this group — which shows in the street trees far more than in the backyards.
The Work We Do Here
- Removals scheduled inside the §3-6-10 sixty-day window, before a lien becomes possible
- Pruning to the eight-foot clearance, and reduction work that is not topping
- Stump grinding, including on parkway ground you maintain but do not own
- Emergency and storm work along the Tinley, Marley and Crystal Creek corridors
Storm damage. Assume any wire in the debris is live, and assume the ground near it is too. Call 911 first, then your electric utility, and hold everyone back until the utility has cleared the scene. We are reachable at every hour and work down the list by hazard.
Ask For A Tree Service Orland Park Price
Send the address and the date on any Village notice — sixty days sounds generous until two weeks have gone. If the tree is on the parkway, say so, and we will explain the §3-6-7 split first.
Call 708-424-5885. See our Cook County service area, and nearby: Orland Hills, Palos.
19253 South Blackhawk Parkway #80
Mokena, Illinois 60448
708-424-5885
Inquiries@protreeservice.com
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