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Cherokee County adopts tree‑preservation and sidewalk tolerance amendments to development rules
Summary
The Board adopted text amendments to Article 27 (tree preservation) and Section 4.15 (sidewalk grade tolerance), allowing prescriptive care plans for some specimen tree impacts and increasing allowable private-sidewalk cross-slope tolerance from 2% to 3.5%; both measures passed unanimously.
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners on April 19 adopted two development-code changes intended to clarify tree protections and give greater field flexibility on private sidewalk construction.
County arborist Shannon Fitzgerald told the board the Article 27 amendments add a minimum boundary‑tree size for regulatory review, reduce the critical‑root‑zone multiplier for boundary trees (for example converting a…
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