Article: Miami-Dade County, Fla., Approaches a Deal on Tree Cutting.

By Michael Greenwald, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 23--'I do want to place some burden on a homeowner with a known diseased tree. Something's got to be done about those trees.'

-- Circuit Judge Ronald Friedman

A Miami judge's compromise proposal would allow the state to cut down canker-infested citrus trees on 2,700 North Miami-Dade County properties unless the tree owners formally object.

Lawyers for the state Agriculture Department, Miami-Dade and the city of North Miami agreed in principle Tuesday to Circuit Judge Ronald Friedman's plan. It calls for the Department of Agriculture to hand-deliver letters ...

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