Tree removal in Forest Park, Georgia

Who decides about a tree in Forest Park

Forest Park is an incorporated city, so its own tree and development rules apply rather than Clayton County’s. Call city hall or the city’s planning office before removing a healthy tree, and ask about a dead one as well: Atlanta, for one, sends an arborist to look at a dead tree before it comes down.

Outside the cities, Clayton County has its own rules; see Clayton County. What applies across the metro, and what the counties publish, is in Permits.

A tree that has already fallen, a tree on a line and a tree on a house have their own steps: tree on the house, tree on a line.

If a tree is on a power line

Call the utility before anyone else; your bill says which one it is. Across Clayton County, federal service-territory records list Georgia Power, Central Georgia El Member Corp, City of College Park, Coweta-Fayette El Member Corp.

Georgia Power: 1-888-891-0938, or 911 to have a downed line blocked off. Co-op and city customers: the outage number on the bill.

Georgia Power storm center · EIA-861, 2024

Questions worth reading in Forest Park

• Tree on a power lineFEMA rates ice storms relatively high here
• Who paysFEMA rates tornado risk relatively high here
• Hanging limbFEMA rates strong wind relatively high here
• Warning signsthe typical home dates from 1965, often with trees as old
• Split or cracked trunk
• Choosing a tree service

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