Canton has 100,000+ residents
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Show Introduction: The Battle Over Tree Laws
At 5:57 · chapter starts 5:35
Jeff Guo and Amanda Aronczyk step in to set the national context for Sarah's story. In recent years, hundreds of American towns and cities have passed laws requiring permits before homeowners or developers remove large trees — places from Dallas to Denver to Mobile, Alabama. The legal premise is straightforward: cities have long exercised broad zoning powers, controlling what you build, how your house looks, even what color you paint it. But tree laws push that power into new territory. Today's episode asks a deceptively simple question: when does a zoning law go too far? And as the hosts note, the fight over trees is becoming the latest front in a decades-long war between property rights and local regulation.
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