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Originally Posted by Alan A

Mature trees can be eye wateringly expensive. No idea if that’s the case here.

I was looking for a different example that I remember, but this is good enough to get the idea.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/nj-homeowner-cut-down-32-of-his-neighbors-trees-and-cost-could-top-1-8m/


Edit: this is the one I remembered. Same idea
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/frq5kn/ek_chops_down_my_tree_costs_her_500000_700000/

This was intentional, and a fine from the town. Dude is going to pay quite a bit for his view.

Hawaii case the developer was incompetent, not intentional.

As a developer, I've dealt with this often in NJ. As an example, we would have had to plant many dozens of trees to replace the ones downed by Hurricane Sandy as the storm hit after our approvals and before work began. We were able to re-survey the property to show the lost trees and amend our approvals, at a cost of a few thousand, opposed to planting 3-4 dozen replacement trees.

There has been a few cases of the wrong house being demolished.