Do you need a permit?
Check with the city
Westminster's Forestry team maintains trees in parks, greenbelts, city facilities and rights-of-way. For a tree on your own lot the city has not published a plain yes-or-no permit rule, and the tree-removal restriction it does publish sits inside the Landscape Regulations, which govern approved landscape plans on development sites. Confirm your property before you cut.
Worth knowing
- Westminster's Landscape Regulations require all existing healthy trees of desirable species 4 inch caliper or more to be shown on the landscape plan and preserved or transplanted unless the city approves otherwise, with removed trees replaced at a 2:1 caliper-inch ratio. This is a landscape-plan requirement.
- The city does not referee neighbour tree disputes — overhanging branches and dropped leaves are private matters between owners.
- Before hiring: get three or more detailed written bids, check credentials and proof of insurance, verify ISA certification, and never pre-pay for tree work.
What we could not confirm
We would rather tell you what we don't know than guess. Call the office below to confirm these before you cut.
- — Whether a permit is required to remove a tree on private residential property, and any size threshold.
- — Whether the 4-inch caliper preservation and 2:1 replacement rule reaches an existing single-family home with no approved landscape plan on file.
- — Whether Westminster licenses tree service companies; fees and penalties.