Greater Atlanta Homebuilders Ass'n v. DeKalb County

I respectfully submit that the majority’s efforts to uphold the DeKalb County Tree Ordinance repeatedly fall short, on both statutory and constitutional grounds. As the majority must and does recognize, the ordinance is “comprehensive,” to say the least. Majority opinion, p. 295. However, the opinion does not include even a cursory review of the ordinance’s requirements. The following summary of key provisions hopefully will remedy that omission, and will also demonstrate the draconian nature of the challenged ordinance:

The stated purposes of the ordinance broadly include the protection of…