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Tree service in Central Beaverton and Old Town

Central Beaverton is the city's original core: the Old Town grid south of Farmington Road, the blocks around City Park and the library, and the creek-side district around Beaverton Central. It has the oldest houses in the city, the biggest yard trees, and the least room to work in.

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Where Central Beaverton sits.

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The trees of Central Beaverton

ZIP 97005. Inside Beaverton city limits, around Hall, Watson, Farmington and Canyon.

Old Town's lots were platted a century ago. The trees that went in with the houses, mostly bigleaf maple, Douglas-fir, black walnut and the odd fruit tree, have had eighty to a hundred years to grow. Many now overhang two or three properties at once.

Big, old and close together is the theme. A mature bigleaf maple here can spread sixty feet across and carry decay in old pruning wounds that nobody has looked at in decades. Large dead limbs over a roof or an alley are the most common hazard we find, and most can be pruned out without removing the tree.

Access decides how a job is done. Many Old Town lots have no driveway to the back, a narrow side gate, and power and cable lines running along the alley or the rear lot line. Wood comes out by hand or on a small tracked loader, and nearly everything is rigged and lowered, because there is nowhere to drop it.

Along Beaverton Creek the native trees are ash, alder and cottonwood, and the newer downtown streets are lined with planted street trees in wells and strips. Those are right-of-way trees, and the city's permit rules cover every one of them.

What we are usually called for in Central Beaverton

Deadwood and heavy limbs over roofs and alleys

Crown cleaning and reduction on old maples and walnuts, done from a rope because a lift can't reach the back yard. It is the work that most often makes a removal unnecessary. Tree trimming and maintenance.

Removals with no drop zone

When a big fir or a decayed maple does have to go, it comes down in small pieces lowered on ropes, sometimes over a neighbor's garage with their agreement. We talk to the neighbors ourselves. Tree removal.

Limbs on service lines

Old trees and overhead wires share the same alleys. If a limb is on a line, call PGE first. Once the line is safe we clear the limb and whatever it broke on the way down. Emergency tree service.

Stumps where an addition or a cottage is planned

Old Town is filling in with additions and backyard cottages. A stump under a future footing has to come out whole, not be ground. Stump removal.

Around Central Beaverton

Local landmarks, and what the trees around each one tell you about your own.

City Park and the library

The park's big firs and maples are a fair sample of what Old Town yards hold. They are inspected and pruned on a schedule. Most private trees of the same age have never been climbed, which is why first visits here usually start with deadwood.

The Old Town grid

From First Street south, small lots and detached garages mean trees routinely overhang two or three owners. Before work on a tree near the line, it is worth confirming whose tree it is. A trunk that straddles the boundary belongs to both neighbors.

Beaverton Creek

The creek runs through the middle of downtown. Trees along it stand in a regulated natural resource corridor, and much of the land beside it is commercial, where landscape trees were a condition of approval. Both kinds need the city's review before removal.

Farmington, Canyon and Hall

The arterials carry the city's 14-foot clearance requirement for branches over the roadway. Owners of corner lots are responsible for keeping sight lines at intersections clear as well.

Central Beaverton and Old Town on the map. Open in Google Maps

Which tree rules apply in Central Beaverton

All of Central Beaverton is inside the city, and because it mixes houses, apartments and businesses, more of its trees are protected than in a typical subdivision.

Inside Beaverton city limits

The tree between the sidewalk and the street is a street tree. You maintain it, and removing it takes a city permit and normally a replacement from the city's approved list. Cutting 20 percent or more of the crown or roots counts as removal. Street trees have to clear 8 feet over the sidewalk, 12 feet over the street and 14 feet over arterials, and topping them is prohibited.

Most ordinary backyard trees need no permit. The exceptions are the trees the development code protects: significant and historic trees, trees in significant groves and natural resource areas, and landscape or mitigation trees that were kept or planted as a condition of the subdivision. If your lot backs onto a greenway, a creek or a preserved grove, treat the trees along that edge as protected until the Planning Division (503-526-2420) says otherwise.

Specific to Central Beaverton

Two things are specific to the center. First, Beaverton designates historic trees, and some of the oldest specimens in the city stand in and around Old Town. Second, trees on commercial and apartment sites were almost always required by a landscape plan, so they are protected landscape trees. A property manager's approval does not replace the city's.

The permit checker gives a first answer in two questions, and the permit guide has the detail. We check every tree's status before a job is booked.

Tree services we offer in Central Beaverton

How a job goes

You call or send the form and tell us what the tree is doing. Phone photos help.
We walk the site and write the estimate in plain language.
Permits and the 811 utility locate are sorted out before any saw starts.
On the day, drop zones are protected and anything over a structure is roped down.
We rake, blow and haul, then walk the yard with you before we leave.

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Tree service questions from Central Beaverton

Can you remove a tree from a backyard with no vehicle access?

Yes. Most Old Town backyards are like that. The tree comes down in small sections on ropes and the wood goes out through the side gate by hand or on a narrow tracked loader. It takes longer, and the estimate says so.

Whose tree is it if the trunk is on the property line?

A tree whose trunk stands on the line belongs to both owners, and both have to agree before it is removed. Limbs that simply hang over your side can be trimmed back to the line, as long as the tree isn't harmed.

Are the trees in the sidewalk downtown mine to prune?

The owner next to a right-of-way tree is responsible for maintaining it, and the work has to meet recognized standards. Removing one always needs a city permit. If you are unsure who planted it, ask the city before cutting.

Is a big old maple automatically dangerous?

No. Size and age are not defects. What matters is dead wood over places people use, decay at old wounds and in the main forks, and root damage. Most old maples we look at need pruning, not removal.

Do you give free estimates in Central Beaverton?

Yes. We walk the site, tell you what the tree needs, and put the scope in writing: what is cut, how it comes down, where the wood and chips go and whether the stump is included. Call (503) 386-0199 or send the form on this page.

Request an estimate

Tell us about the tree and we'll call to set up a site walk. For emergency service, skip the form and call.