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Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Land clearing in Southport, NC starts with the city's tree rules. Section 3.18 of the city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) manages what Southport calls its Urban Maritime Forest. Inside the city's zoning jurisdiction, any tree over 3 inches DBH needs a tree impact permit before it comes down. DBH is the trunk's diameter at breast height. A new home on a vacant lot also needs a mitigation plan. The Census Bureau estimated 4,341 people in the city in 2024, up from 4,016 in 2020.
Coastal Brush Mowing is based in Burgaw. Southport is about 55 miles south of us, roughly an hour and 15 minutes by road. That puts it at the southern edge of our service area. We have cleared and graded land in southeastern North Carolina since 2013. The work runs on excavators, a tracked skid steer and a dump truck. We also work in Oak Island, Caswell Beach, St. James and Boiling Spring Lakes. The estimate is free and comes from looking at the property.
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The city sorts trees by size. Regulated trees are hardwoods over 8 inches DBH and conifers over 12 inches DBH. A specimen tree is any tree of any species over 30 inches DBH. For a new home on a vacant lot, the mitigation plan covers every regulated tree within the required setbacks. It also covers every specimen tree anywhere on the property. The property owner submits that plan to the city. The approved plan decides which trees stay standing, and our land clearing follows it.
Once the property owner has the approval, we clear only what it allows. Trees marked to stay are left standing. Stumps in the cleared area come out with the excavator. Then the tracked skid steer rough grades the ground for the pad and driveway. Brush, logs and stumps are loaded in our dump truck and hauled off as part of the job. They can also stay piled on site if you want. For a new home, our site prep page covers the building pad and drainage.
Yes, if any tree over 3 inches DBH will come down. The city requires its tree impact permit for that, anywhere inside its zoning jurisdiction. Check with the city whether your lot falls inside that line. The property owner applies on the city's online portal, and there is no permit fee. For new construction, the tree plan goes in with the building permit application. The city reviews it before the building permit issues. We start once the property owner has the permit.
Mitigation means replanting. On residential lots, it equals 25 percent of the DBH of the regulated and specimen trees cut within the setbacks. The city's own example is one 20 inch tree in the setbacks, which means replanting 5 inches. Section 3.18 also includes lot clearing provisions and enforcement. For a vacant residential lot, the city accepts a hand drawn sketch or a copy of a plat or survey as the tree plan, showing the regulated or specimen trees that come out and the trees planted back. So we keep our clearing inside the approved plan.
Brunswick County grew from 136,689 people in 2020 to an estimated 167,112 in 2024, about 22 percent. It is one of the state's CAMA counties. NCDEQ says a project in an Area of Environmental Concern may need a CAMA permit. NCDEQ also requires an erosion and sedimentation control plan when land disturbance covers more than one acre. That plan goes in at least 30 days before work begins. Where a permit or plan is needed, the property owner applies before our grading and dirt work starts.
The same fee list has more Southport items. A floodplain development permit is $100.00. A residential stormwater plan review is $100.00 per plan for a single lot. The list also includes a soil import fee and a soil export fee, $100.00 each. On a flat lot that holds water, we shape the grade and cut swales. We set driveway culverts to move standing water off the lot. We haul fill dirt in with our dump truck and pack it in layers for the pad.
Communities & areas we serve around Southport: Smithville Woods, The Hammocks at Southport, The Landing at Southport, Oak Island, Caswell Beach, St. James, Boiling Spring Lakes, Bolivia.
Southport ZIP codes served: 28461.
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(910) 512-9578 Rotary cutting for overgrown fields, pastures, vacant lots and fence lines across southeastern North Carolina.
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Excavation for building pads, trenches, culverts and drainage cuts. We dig it, load it out, and leave the ground at the grade your plan calls for.
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Houses, sheds, barns, garages and old slabs taken down and hauled away, with the ground left clean and level.
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Land grading, house pads, gravel driveways and drainage swales across Pender County. We cut and fill the ground so water runs off it and away from the house.
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We grind underbrush and small trees into mulch on site, so the wood stays as ground cover.
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We dig and shape ponds on residential and rural land across Pender, New Hanover, Onslow, Brunswick and Duplin counties. That covers farm ponds on private land and retention ponds on commercial sites.
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Gravel driveway installation, regrading, parking pads and farm lanes across Pender County, built on fabric and packed ABC stone that sheds water.
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Driveway culvert installation, culvert replacement, ditching and drainage swales across Pender County, so standing water leaves your lot and the drive stays dry.
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We haul fill dirt, fill sand, ABC stone and gravel by the load across Pender County, then spread and pack it.
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We tear down single wide and double wide mobile homes around Burgaw, then haul the debris away with excavators, a skid steer and dump truck.
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We turn raw lots around Burgaw into drained building sites, with the pad packed in layers and ready for the builder.
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Great guy to work with. Demoed the trailer and made it all go away.
Absolutely love Steve and his excellent work ethic. We hired him to clear our acre lot in Holly Ridge, demo and haul off an old single wide trailer, bring in fill dirt and make the cleared land look fantastic. He went above and beyond what we expected. He was always on time, returned phone calls or text and he was fair with pricing.
Steve does a great job I’ve been using him for over a decade
Excellent work and very very reliable. I highly recommend. They have done several projects from road work, dirt and rock delivery, clearing, grading, taking out trees and they were even able to dig my hole to install our built in pool. Superior Business as far as I'm concerned.
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Land to clear, an old structure to take down, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you and the estimate is free, from a company that has worked this ground since 2013.
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