The city’s new rules quadruple the fines for unauthorized removal of a protected tree such as a black jack oak or post oak.

“With these, because the program is so well established and people really want their trees, people know that we’ve done these in the past — even in the rain — so they know we’re gonna be ...

Members added special protections for certain native oak trees and raised the fines for developers who violate forestry rules ...

The new rules are aimed at protecting the city’s tree canopy from development.