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Put on a saw and just cut down a tree like that?
Nothing there, in many cases you need a permit.
In the future, the rules of the Tree Protection Ordinance will be even stricter.
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The city of Munich is planning an amended tree protection ordinance.
Among other things, it should provide more protection for fruit trees and climbing plants.
In Munich, all fruit trees and climbing trees will in future also be subject to the tree protection regulations.
Trees with a trunk circumference of more than 60 centimeters should no longer be allowed to be felled without permission, and the criteria for replacement planting and compensation payments will also become stricter.
The existing regulation was last amended in 2013
Munich's trees make a significant contribution to species protection, to improving the urban climate, to climate adaptation as well as to city structure and biotope networking.
That's why they should now be protected even better.
The existing tree protection ordinance was last adjusted in 2013.
In the future, trees with a trunk circumference of 60 centimeters (measured one meter above the ground) will fall under the felling protection.
Previously the limit was 80 centimeters.
Several large cities such as Frankfurt, Mannheim and Darmstadt have demonstrated this, and some cities even prohibit felling of more than 50 centimeters.
The advantage: Vital younger trees can be better preserved, especially since the common reasons for felling such as disease or damage hardly apply to them.
In addition, new plantings fall under tree protection more quickly.
Large climbing plants should also be protected
Climbing plants whose individual trunks have a total circumference of 60 centimeters will also be subject to the Tree Protection Ordinance in the future.
In individual cases, large ivy, wild vine and wisteria are already protected; the new regulation would significantly expand the protection of climbing plants.
In the future, fruit trees will no longer be so easy to cut down.
Until now, only a few species - walnut, crabapple, crabapple, bird cherry, elderberry and hazel - were protected in Munich because they often had to be heavily pruned to build a stable crown and produce crops.
Now Munich is joining the regulations in most other large cities and is bringing all fruit trees under the protective umbrella.
Allotment gardens remain unaffected by tree protection
It is conceivable that necessary pruning measures will be permitted as an exception - accompanied by tree consultants.
Incidentally, allotment gardens remain unaffected by tree protection.
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The criteria for replacement plantings and the amount of compensation payments will also be adjusted.
However, there should be various funding programs that, among other things, pay for in-depth tree examinations or subsidies for care measures for particularly valuable trees.
Construction sites relevant to tree protection should be systematically checked in the future.
Violations could lead to unpleasant consequences for building permits.
The city wants to monitor compliance with the requirements more closely
In general, there should be more control of the trees overall.
If more trees fall under the Tree Protection Ordinance, the number of trees felled will of course also increase, as will replacement plantings and compensation payments.
The expected additional income will largely flow into additional tree locations.
Following a call from the Horticulture Department, the district committees made around 1,200 suggestions for a total of well over 2,000 potential tree plantings in public green spaces, the possibilities of which are currently being examined.
The costs are estimated at around 9.5 million euros.
Building law comes before tree law
However, tree protection finds its limits in building law, which is anchored in the Basic Law as a property right.
So building law comes before tree law.
However, trees outside the construction area can certainly trigger a replanning with the stricter protective measures.