Tree service for southwest Palm Bay — the quadrant being built right now
The Compound, Cypress Bay and the streets off Jupiter Boulevard and the St. Johns Heritage Parkway were pine flatwoods and pepper two years ago. Clearing them, and dealing with what the builders leave, is half our week.
The southwest quadrant is where Palm Bay's growth is happening. General Development platted it in the 1960s and then never built it; for fifty years the Compound was a grid of empty streets through pine flatwoods, saw palmetto and Brazilian pepper. Since the St. Johns Heritage Parkway opened and the city's population passed 140,000, the lots have been selling and building faster than anywhere else in Brevard — hundreds of new houses a year off Jupiter Boulevard, Cypress Bay, Degroodt Road and the parkway. Every one of them starts with a lot to clear, and every one of them ends up, a year later, with a sand pine the builder left three feet from the eave, a lot line of pepper the neighbor didn't clear, and a swale the spoil filled in.
Our work here is clearing first: forestry-mulch clears that leave a clean, walkable lot, clear-and-grub for the slab, selective clears that keep the live oaks and the big slash pines and fence them at the drip line, and the paperwork — Palm Bay's tree-retention minimums, the Planning Division permit for anything over an acre, the invasive exemption for the pepper that's most of what's there. Then the aftermath: the leaning sand pines and dead slash pines that construction root-cut, the pepper thickets on the lot lines and the unbuilt lots next door, and the storm cleanup on streets where the canopy is young and the pines are the tallest thing for a mile.
What we do in Southwest Palm Bay & the Compound
Lot clearing
Quarter-acre lots mulched, grubbed or selectively cleared for the build, with the keepers fenced and the swale kept open.
Builder leftovers
Sand and slash pines left too close to the house, root-cut during construction and dying — removed before they lean further.
Lot-line pepper
Thickets between lots and on the unbuilt lots next door cut back and stump-treated so they stay gone.
Palmetto and scrub
Saw palmetto grubbed so it doesn't come through the new sod; scrub oak and myrtle cleared.
Permits & retention
The city's tree-retention minimums counted before the clear; Planning Division permits for lots over an acre.
Storm cleanup
Young canopy, tall pines and open streets — the southwest takes wind hard; cleanup and hangers after every storm.
Neighborhoods, streets and communities we cover
- The Compound
- Cypress Bay
- Jupiter Boulevard corridor
- St. Johns Heritage Parkway
- Degroodt Road
- Malabar Road west
- Babcock Street south
- Garvey Road area
- Waco Boulevard (SW)
- Emerson Drive west
- Wyoming Drive area
- Osmosis Drive
- Krassner Drive area
- Eber Boulevard
Tree services available in Southwest Palm Bay & the Compound
- Tree removal, crane tree removal, 24/7 emergency & storm service
- Tree trimming & pruning, hurricane prep, storm cleanup
- Palm trimming, palm removal, stump grinding
- Lot & land clearing, Brazilian pepper & invasive removal
- Commercial & HOA tree service
Questions from Southwest Palm Bay & the Compound homeowners
The builder left a pine next to my new house. Is it safe?
Usually not for long. Pines root-cut by the foundation, the driveway and the septic drainfield die from the top over a couple of years and snap in wind. If the top is thinning or browning, or it's leaning toward the house, it's better removed now than after it's dead and brittle. The arborist can tell you which pines on the lot are going to make it.
Do I need a permit to clear my lot in the Compound?
Not the city's tree-removal permit on a house lot under an acre — but the building permit for the house includes the landscape code's tree minimums, so clearing to bare sand means planting trees at the end. Keep the good live oaks and big pines and you're ahead. Over an acre, the Planning Division wants a site plan. Pepper and the other invasives can go anywhere.
Can you clear the pepper on the vacant lot next to mine?
With the owner's permission, yes — a lot of Compound owners have us do their lot and the empty one beside it at the same time. On your own lot line we cut to the line and treat the stumps; regrowth from the neighbor's side is theirs.
Mulching or grubbing?
Grubbing if the house is going in this year — the roots have to be out from under the slab. Mulching if you're holding the lot; it's cheaper, faster, and keeps the pepper down. Both are priced on the estimate.
How far southwest do you go?
All the way to the county line and the St. Johns marsh — the Compound, Cypress Bay, everything off the parkway.
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