Land Clearing and Lot Clearing in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County

Clearing in Palm Beach County ranges from a quarter-acre lot choked with invasives to acreage being prepared for a home or barn. The Acreage and Loxahatchee are still full of one-acre and larger lots being cleared for homes and barns, and most carry Brazilian pepper and other invasives that need mulching or hauling. In unincorporated Palm Beach County, clearing a vacant lot takes a Tree Removal and Replacement permit from Zoning and a site development permit from the Building Division, and the county's nine prohibited invasives have to come out before a new home gets its certificate of occupancy.

What we clear

• Overgrown residential lots before sale, construction or a pool install.
• Invasive species: Brazilian pepper, Australian pine, melaleuca, carrotwood, earleaf acacia and Queensland umbrella tree are among the nine plants Palm Beach County prohibits. In unincorporated county they have to come out before a new home gets its certificate of occupancy and removing them takes no tree permit, and West Palm Beach needs no permit to remove invasive exotics either. Brazilian pepper along canals and fence lines is one of the most common clearing jobs here.
• Fence lines and property boundaries so a fence can go in.
• Building and pool pads, coordinated with your contractor's survey.
• Selective clearing that keeps the mature trees you want and removes everything else.
• Underbrush and vines that have taken over a canopy.

Permits and protected trees

Permit rules change at the city line, and clearing that touches wetlands, a creek buffer or a protected species gets extra review. The estimator tells you up front if your lot has that issue and what the paperwork adds to the schedule.

Equipment and cleanup

Forestry mulchers for brush and small trees, excavators and grapple trucks for large material, and chippers for everything else. Material is mulched in place, chipped, or hauled depending on what you want the site to look like when we leave.

Pricing

Lot clearing is quoted per property after a site walk, in writing. Price depends on density, tree size, access, disposal and whether stumps are ground or excavated.

Bring the survey or plat to the site walk if you have one. Call (561) 454-8006 to set a date in West Palm Beach and across Palm Beach County.