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Removal of sugar palms

Need a recommendation for a landscaper to remove some palms and replace with several podacarpus and add some hard scape.

A word to the wise: Make sure you get approval to remove the palms.

What happens if you do NOT get approval? My garden in Mexico had 14 different kinds of palms growing. The house we just sold was 4hours south of Cancun. I told my wife about the people posting about not wanting to rake leaves. She said they need an apartment. Merry Christmas

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Originally Posted by Greg Nelson (Post 984663)

If you do not get approval, you cannot remove the trees; it's that simple. Believe me -- if you did do that, one of your neighbors would turn you in.

I agree with your wife about leaves. I have yet to figure out what these people's problem is when most of them in fact, do not mow or edge their own lawn.

We take care of our own lawn, etc., and have no problem with the falling leaves. No big deal!

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Originally Posted by Bonanza (Post 985019)

Yea, I don't have anything better to do than calling the Arch Review board to find out if my neighbor got approval for his landscape work..

The review board is not worried about you removing palm trees, nor the artistic representation of your landscape. They want to know if you are making your beds bigger affecting proper drainage for you and your neighbors, removing the native tree planted when your house was built according to State code, adding permanent walls or patio outside your buildable zone, building landscape walls too high...

Removal of non native species from your landscape bed is not mentioned in the requirements the Arch Committee published for landscape work requiring approval.