East Hazel Crest

Tree Service in East Hazel Crest, IL

East Hazel Crest is a village of roughly 1,300 people that licenses tree work as its own occupation. A tree service East Hazel Crest residents call has to hold that license by name. Section 20-10(m): “It shall be unlawful for any person or firm to engage in the business or occupation of pruning, treating or removing street or park trees within the village without first applying for and procuring a license.” The fee is $25 annually in advance. Furthermore, the applicant must carry liability insurance of at least $50,000 for bodily injury and $100,000 property damage.

Villages ten times its size do not go that far. So it is a fair thing to ask any bidder about here.

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A Tree Superintendent And A Written Plan

Section 20-10 establishes a Village Tree Superintendent, appointed by the village administrator. The Superintendent develops and administers an annual written tree care plan. That plan also carries approved small, medium and large species lists. Moreover, it sets spacing minimums of thirty, forty and fifty feet.

Section 20-10(i) states plainly that the village has the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove trees, plants and shrubs. That right runs within the lines of all streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, squares and public grounds. Under 20-3, injuring any tree or shrub planted or growing in a public place is unlawful. However, the director of public works and buildings can give permission. Section 20-2 requires street trees whose branches extend over sidewalks or streets to be trimmed at least seven feet above the ground.

On your own land, Section 20-12 requires every owner to maintain all trees and plants at all times necessary to prevent them becoming a nuisance. Section 20-13 then requires prompt removal of any dead, diseased or damaged portion. Between them, those two sections cover most of what a tree service East Hazel Crest homeowners book actually does.

Seventy Percent Of The Dead Trees Are Already Gone

East Hazel Crest budgeted $120,000 for hazardous dead tree removal. It reports approximately seventy percent removed to date. For a village of 400 acres, that is a serious commitment. Furthermore, it tells you what the canopy here has been through.

If your tree survived that program, the village assessed it and left it standing. However, you may be looking at one now that worries you. Either it changed since, or it sits on private ground the program never covered. Either way, the tree service East Hazel Crest still needs is mostly on private lots now. If an ash does come out, the Morton Arboretum is the best guide to what will grow in its place.

A Village Created By A Railroad Embankment

East Hazel Crest was part of Hazel Crest, which incorporated in 1911. Then the Illinois Central elevated its tracks, and the embankment cut off the eastern section. In 1918 it voted to incorporate on its own. That is the whole reason the village exists: a railroad embankment. It later annexed Bremerton Woods, a small commercial area and residential subdivision west of the tracks. Village administration and the Metra station now sit there.

Today it is 0.78 square miles, over ninety percent single-family residential. It sits in the Little Calumet watershed with about fifteen acres of floodplain and zero repetitive-loss properties. Meanwhile the village names flooding in the Southern Corridor, the Cornell area, and at 158th and Greenwood.

Brush Is Not Collected

Section 17-23 excludes bulky hedge trimmings, tree trimmings, building materials and miscellaneous extraordinary items. Those fall outside the refuse the chapter covers. So there is no village route for the material from a removal. Therefore haul-away belongs in every tree service East Hazel Crest quote. Everything we cut leaves with us.

What We Do In East Hazel Crest

• Removals, licensed under 20-10(m), with complete haul-away
• Pruning to the seven-foot clearance Section 20-2 requires
• Stump grinding
• Storm response, day or night

Tree Service East Hazel Crest Estimates

Address and species. If it is an ash, elm or silver maple, know one thing before you start. The village will not let the same species go back in its place. However, we will suggest what will.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: Hazel Crest, Homewood.