Rolling Meadows, IL Tree Service

Twelve inches is the number that matters to any tree service Rolling Meadows homeowners call. A tree becomes a “protected tree” at a trunk of twelve inches. An eighteen-inch aggregate does it on a multi-stem. The code measures 54 inches up. Past that mark, Sec. 114-34 requires a removal permit for each property before anything comes down. Then Sec. 114-27 makes a violator replace the tree and pay “at the rate of $100.00 per inch of trunk diameter of the tree that was destroyed or removed.”

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The City Licenses Lawn And Tree Care Specialists

Chapter 22, Article III, Division 20 carries the heading “Lawn and Tree Care Specialists.” Under Sec. 22-831, nobody may take money to “plant, remove, trim, spray, or otherwise treat lawns, trees, or shrubs for compensation” without that license. Holders must file public liability, property damage and workers’ compensation policies with the city. The fee sits in Appendix B, and the code states no bond. It is a narrow, specific license class, and plenty of towns nearby have nothing like it. So ask whichever tree service Rolling Meadows sends you a price whether they hold it.

Chapter 114 splits the rest in two. Article II covers public trees, Article III private. Sec. 114-5(a)(3) reserves to the city “the authority to plant, maintain and remove all public trees, shrubs and other plantings.” That covers “any public right-of-way within city limits or on any property owned or maintained by the city.” Sec. 114-21 makes it unlawful to treat diseases or pests by pesticide without a permit. The same goes for pruning or removing branches from any public tree. And Sec. 114-23 adds a permit for removal. Contractors working on public trees must carry liability insurance and employ ISA-certified arborists — not a recommendation, a condition. The ISA’s homeowner guidance lets you check what that certification covers before you hire.

Two further penalty sections exist in the chapter but came back to us only as unreadable search fragments. We are leaving those figures off this page rather than publishing numbers we could not confirm. The city clerk can supply the current text.

Kimball Hill Planted It All At Once

Rolling Meadows is a manufactured place, and it shows in the trees. Kimball Hill’s subdivision drew its first families in 1953, and “700 houses were sold by 1955.” The city incorporated on 26 February 1955. By 1970 multifamily made up 35 percent of structures. The county annex now describes “minimal residential construction…most of the land has been developed.” Roughly 24,200 people live on 5.62 square miles spanning three townships — Palatine, Elk Grove and Wheeling.

A canopy that arrives inside a handful of seasons reaches the end of its span inside a handful of seasons. When four houses in a row lose a tree in the same year, that is not bad luck. It is a nursery invoice from seventy years ago coming due. It is also why we would rather look at a street than at a single tree when someone calls.

Salt Creek supplies the water problem. There are 214.95 acres in the 100-year floodplain and 271.45 in the 500-year. Five single-family repetitive-loss properties sit here, none severe. Trouble concentrates where Salt Creek meets the Kennedy, and at the Kimball Hill and Willow Bend/Lake Barker ponds. It shows again along Rohlwing Road between Kirchoff and Euclid, and between Industrial and Route 14. The list continues on Meadow Drive, in the Carriageway area, at Barker Lake and on Rywick Court. Older landmarks survive in between: the Salem Evangelical Church of 1862 and its cemetery, and the Clearbrook Center from 1955. The Golf Road “Golden Corridor” runs through too. The city has been a Tree City USA since 15 April 2012. But it does not publish an inventory count, a trim cycle or an ash program. So we cannot tell you one.

Tree Service Rolling Meadows: The Jobs We Get

• Removals of protected trees, with a permit per property under Sec. 114-34
• Pruning across whole blocks of same-age Kimball Hill stock
• Stump grinding on tight post-war lots where access is the hard part
• Emergency and storm work around Salt Creek and the pond streets

Pricing A Tree Service Rolling Meadows Job

Give us the address and a trunk measurement if the tree looks close to twelve inches. That single number decides whether a permit is in play. We quote free, and we will tell you when a job is the city’s to do rather than yours.

Call 708-424-5885. More of our Cook County coverage, and nearby: Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Inverness.