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Tenafly council agrees to place homeowner tree-mitigation appeal on a future agenda; directs staff to draft RFP for contracted tree-inspection services
Summary
Homeowners who removed nine trees and posted mitigation escrow will formally appeal the public works director’s forfeiture finding; council also directed staff to draft an RFP for licensed tree-inspection services to address a backlog of mitigation inspections and enable charges against escrows.
The Tenafly Mayor and Council agreed during its meeting to place on a future agenda an appeal by a homeowner disputing a public-works determination that mitigation requirements for removed trees were not satisfied.
The appeal concerns a property the owners said they bought and began living in in summer 2022. The homeowners said they removed nine trees with a permit, posted a mitigation bond—reported in the meeting as $11,250—and were later told they must plant the equivalent of 25 "major" replacement trees. The homeowners told the council they have about 45–50 trees and ornamentals on the lot and that a landscaper advised only four to five additional major trees could reasonably be planted on the parcel. They said replanting 25 major trees would cost approximately $500 per tree in nursery and…
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