Question from: Eric Hendrickson, Forestry and Urban Landscaping Supervisor, Village of Lombard
Can you please provide feedback as to what your standards are for tree protection fencing and if you have had any issues/complaints/suits regarding visibility or line of sight issues within your municipality?
Information made available by: Tony Dati, Village of Niles
Tree protection is included in the permit process for work on Village of Niles right-of-ways. The drip line of the parkway trees has to be protected. There are always going to be circumstances where that’s almost impossible. The Village Forester can stop any job going on in the Village of Niles if tree protection is not being used or being used improperly. Our village ordinance States that residence that have trees or bushes that cause line-of-sight issues will be trimmed back or removed. We don’t always see every line of sight issue but once we receive a phone call or complaint I go out and investigate if I find there is a line of sight issue I will notify the homeowner and let them know they need to trim back a remove whatever is causing the problem. If a resident does not take care of the situation, the Village will fine them and pay somebody to remove whatever needs to be removed. Almost always when a resident is notified they take care of the problem at least that has been my experience.
Information made available by: Daren Mindham, Urban Forester, City of Carmel
I have attached our fencing detail. Unlike engineered details this one is more easy to read and the color makes it stand out on the drawings. Click here to view.
Information made available by: Robert Sproule, Oak Park
http://www.oak-park.us/sites/default/files/building/factsheets/tree-protection-factsheet-revised.pdf
Information made available by: Dave Coulter
There have occasionally been times when fences had to be shortened (maybe to 3′) near intersections or around driveway aprons.
I think it would be interesting to see if shorter fences would work as well in tree press sites. As it is people have varying interest in the full size models! May not be all that much difference?
Information made available by: Robyn Flake, Natural Resources Manager, Village of Glenview
I’m attaching our tree standards manual – information about construction fencing begins on page 13.
As for sight lines – we do get quite a lot of complaints about it and try to respond. Almost always we do something – remove a branch, require someone to trim their bushes, things like that. So far I have not encountered a complaint about visibility and the tree fencing.
Click here for Tree Standards Manual
Information made available by: Michael Collins, Village of Riverside
We used to use snow fencing but changed to chain link due to the unsightly appearance and the fact that snow fencing seems to fall or loosen over the duration of a long rebuild. Snow fence is also a lower height and has more flex which can lead to some cheating or allow for temp storage.
Information made available by: Jerome Scott, District Forester | Chicago Park District
Information made available by: Mike Szymanski, Village of Barrington
