Tree Removal in Hazel Crest, IL

Any tree removal Hazel Crest signs off on goes past a Tree Superintendent the code requires to be an International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborist. That is written into Section 28-1(b), with the appointment made by the village manager. Section 28-3 then writes the professional standards directly into the ordinance: ANSI A300 Part 6 and ISA Best Management Practices for planting, ANSI A300 Part 1 for pruning.

Most villages say trees should be cared for properly. Hazel Crest names the standard, in the code, and hires to it. It has been a Tree City USA since 1986 — the earliest date of any village around it.

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The Numbers In Chapter 28

Section 28-2(a) restricts street-tree planting to the Superintendent’s approved list of trees and cultivars, with no other species planted without written permission. Spacing under 28-3 runs thirty feet for small species, forty for medium and fifty for large, with parkway widths of five, eight and ten feet for those classes. No street tree may stand closer than thirty-five feet to any street corner, or within ten feet of hydrants, manholes, valve boxes and signs. Nothing but a small species may go under or within twenty lateral feet of an overhead utility wire.

Section 28-4(b) bans topping any tree on public property. It defines topping as cutting limbs back to stubs larger than three inches in diameter within the crown, so as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree. The ISA’s consumer guidance explains why topping damages a tree rather than reducing its risk.

Ninety Percent Of The Wires Are Overhead

Hazel Crest’s own assessment puts it at ninety percent overhead powerlines. Its mitigation plan lists implementing a regular tree maintenance program to remove dead or weakened trees and trim branches near power lines and buildings.

That twenty-foot rule in Section 28-3 exists for exactly this reason. If you are replanting under a line here, a small species is not a suggestion — it is the code. And if you have a large tree already growing into a service drop, that is a clearance job worth doing before the next ice storm. Wires are the reason so much tree removal Hazel Crest needs is planned as a rigging job from the start.

Three Townships, Two Creeks, Two Housing Eras

Hazel Crest is split across three townships. Bremen holds most of it, the portion south of 183rd Street sits in Rich Township, and the portion east of I-80/94 sits in Thornton. It covers about 3.4 square miles with 13,386 people.

Development started near 170th Street where the Illinois Central met the Dixie Highway, then pushed south through the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The older section, Hazel Crest Proper, has declined; the newer subdivisions — Pottawatomie Hills, Pacesetter, the Twin Creeks area — carry the later plantings.

Twin Creeks runs east of Kedzie between 178th and 190th; Mahoney Creek runs by Pottawatomie Hills. Flooding is named at 167th and Kedzie near a low-lying area, and at Pottawatomie Hills by Mahoney Creek. There is a third point around the detention basin at 175th and Governors Highway. Two FEMA repetitive-loss properties.

Brush Rules And The Compost Center

Section 12-6 requires tree cuttings and branches bundled securely in lengths not exceeding four feet and diameter not exceeding two feet. No bundle may weigh over fifty pounds. Village brush pickup runs on a schedule, and the village says that schedule means residents no longer need to bring brush to the composting center at 2600 W. 170th Place. Public Works: 708-335-9600, extension 200.

Tree Removal In Hazel Crest: What We Do

• Pruning to ANSI A300 — the standard Section 28-4(a) actually names
• Removals, with wood and brush hauled off rather than left for a bundle limit
• Stump grinding
• Creek-side clearing along Twin Creeks and Mahoney Creek
• Storm response, 24 hours

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Address, and tell us whether there are wires overhead. That determines both what we can do and what the code lets you replant.

708-424-5885 · Cook County service area · nearby: East Hazel Crest, Country Club Hills.