Miami's tree canopy is being permitted away, one folio at a time.
A public dashboard of tree permits sourced from the City of Miami's published Intended Decisions and the iBuild permit portal — with automated appeal deadline tracking updated every 12 hours.
- Source
- miami.gov + iBuild
- Permit years
- BD20 → BD26
- Auto-sync
- Every 12 hours
- Live data
- Updated June 2026
Sample record · iBuild
Every dot on the map starts as a record like this — pulled from the city's public permit portal, parsed, and joined to property and species data.
By the numbers
A live snapshot of the dataset. Each card links the underlying records — same shape the city's portal returns, just legible.
Removals by neighborhood
- Coconut Grove28
- Brickell10
- Allapattah8
- Wynwood7
- Little Havana7
- Edgewater6
Permit pipeline
Of 172 tree permits in the system, 75 have been approved or issued, while only 16 have been denied.
For comparison, New York City maintains a public map of every street tree — species, condition, and planting date. Miami currently does not. The CRC formally requested this data on April 29, 2026 and was given a generic i-Tree dashboard with no permit records.
Specimen-tree removals
Trees the city is letting go.
Specimen trees — the largest, oldest, most ecologically significant — flagged for removal in active permit applications. These are not replaceable in our lifetimes.
- In Review
BD26-005555-001
Geiger Tree
Cordia sebestena
2451 NW 37 Ave· Liberty City- DBH
- 20″
- Age
- ~35 yr
- Spread
- 48 ft
Filed 2026-05-09 - In Review
BD26-006311-001
Mahogany
Swietenia mahagoni
601 NE 1 Ave· Edgewater- DBH
- 26″
- Age
- ~42 yr
- Spread
- 60 ft
Filed 2026-05-08Linked to construction - Approved
BD26-007634-001
Live Oak
Quercus virginiana
1401 Brickell Ave· Brickell- DBH
- 30″
- Age
- ~50 yr
- Spread
- 70 ft
Filed 2026-05-05 - Approved
BD26-007821-001
Mahogany
Swietenia mahagoni
1234 Brickell Ave· Brickell- DBH
- 28″
- Age
- ~44 yr
- Spread
- 62 ft
Filed 2026-04-30Linked to construction - Approved
BD26-005933-001
Live Oak
Quercus virginiana
3100 NE 2 Ave· Little River- DBH
- 32″
- Age
- ~55 yr
- Spread
- 74 ft
Filed 2026-04-29 - Approved
BD26-008203-001
Strangler Fig
Ficus aurea
2701 S Bayshore Dr· Coconut Grove- DBH
- 26″
- Age
- ~48 yr
- Spread
- 64 ft
Filed 2026-04-28Linked to construction
Why this exists
Trees are public infrastructure. Permit data should be too.
On April 29, 2026 the City of Miami's Charter Review Commission formally requested every tree permit ever issued by the city. They were sent a generic i-Tree dashboard with no permit records. This dashboard exists because that one does not.
Heat
Tree canopy can drop neighborhood surface temperatures by 10–25°F. Block by block, removals are pushing Miami’s heat index higher in exactly the neighborhoods that can least afford air conditioning.
Flooding
A single mature live oak intercepts thousands of gallons of stormwater per year. Replacing one with a coconut palm replaces less than a fifth of that capacity, on a sea-level-rise coastline.
Hurricane resilience
Native Florida species — gumbo limbo, mahogany, live oak — are the most wind-resistant and the most often cleared for redevelopment. Their replacements are typically less storm-tolerant, not more.
Accountability
Mitigation fines for removing a 200-year-old tree run a few thousand dollars on a project earning millions. As neighbors testified to the CRC: the fines are a line item, not a deterrent.
Get involved
You have 10 days to appeal. We track every one of them.
Our appeal tracker syncs with the City of Miami every 12 hours. Search any address, see active deadlines, and show up to public meetings with the data already in hand.