City's hefty tree removal fees could have cost this Huguenot resident $170K
City’s hefty tree removal fees could have cost this Huguenot resident $170K Updated Feb 16, 2021; Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Mike Uberti was building his family’s first home in 2012, he wasn’t planning on having to pay a hefty sum to remove a tree on the Huguenot lot of land he had purchased to construct the new house. The city Parks Department refused to remove the tree, stating that it was too healthy, so Uberti recalled that he was told it would cost him $170,000 to get rid of the tree, which included restitution fees to have the city replant an equivalent number of ...
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