"While the city has no power to deny a resident from cutting down a tree, staff typically consults with homeowners if certain trees proposed for removal are healthy and aren’t close enough to threaten a home or other structure, Rast said."

I have always been told I had to have a permit? So why do I need a permit? I'm having 4 cut down next week.

All you people do here is whine and whine about how you don't want to pay any more than you already do for the services the City provides. The cost for these services rises every year. These would include but are not limited to the following: The inspector's salary. Yes, someone does take the time to come out to your house. That person gets paid a salary. The vehicle he/she drives needs to be maintained, those cost have risen. Gasoline cost continue to rise. The cost of the paper your permit is printed on has gone up, the cost of ink has risen. Yet what no one here seems to realize is that the City has not raised taxes in almost 20 years. The City has to do something to raise revenue to pay for inflation. WAKE UP! The City cut landscaping services and outsourced that. Now the landscaping looks like crap and all anyone does is complain about it. If you want to continue to live in an above average community like Peachtree City, you need to expect to pay a little more in taxes. If you want Peachtree City to be like everywhere else, then tell Council to keep taxes where they are and shut up when the City starts looking like Riverdale

I have no problem with paying a small fee for a tree permit. $25 though seems a bit excessive. A $5.00 fee seems more reasonable for this..

Tree permits are done online. dont think there is a cost by doing it that way. I would think it would cost them more to start charging because they would have to set up a credit/debit card online payment. A fence permit as an example, you go in person and pay. I think they could just cut the city managers pay by 23000 and that should solve the problem.

Just raise my taxes and quit tacking some silly fee on every little thing I have to have done around my property. I really don't need some city yahoo (no offense intended) to come by and tell me, "Yep, those trees are really dead". Or, "Yep, your fence needs replaced". Try doing something to the clear cutters, like a neighbor of mine, who whacked down damned near every tree on his lot and when someone (no not me) reported him to the city all thay did was keep him from cleaning up the debris for a week or two.

Just what the citizens of PTC need, another fee. These guys are rocket scientists. Their only solution to a problem is to ask the residents to open their checkbooks.

The Process continues!