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 for live appeal tracking, alongside a dated June 2026 research snapshot of iBuild permit records.
- Live source
- Miami Intended Decisions
- Archive
- iBuild snapshot · June 2026
- Appeal sync
- Scheduled daily
- Freshness
- Shown on tracker
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.
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
Appeal windows are short. Verify the deadline before you act.
Our appeal tracker monitors the City of Miami's Intended Decisions on a scheduled daily run, shows its last verified sync, and links back to the official source for confirmation.