Billboard vegetation management
BVM application decision

Typically, MDOT will notify an applicant of its decision within ninety (90) days of receiving a complete BVM Permit application.

MDOT may take one of the following actions:

1. Approve the application
2. Approve the application with limitations and/or modifications, or
3. Deny the application

Upon receiving notice of MDOT's decision to approve an application (with or without limitations and/or modifications), the applicant has thirty (30) days to submit the following items:

• Payment of the $500 BVM Permit fee
• Payment of any additional review or inspection fees, if MDOT determines they are necessary
• Payment of the value of the vegetation approved for removal or trimming, as determined by MDOT
• A $5,000 electronic individual performance bond for the work to be completed under the BVM Permit
  • If the applicant prefers one bond to cover multiple BVM Permits, a $50,000 electronic blanket performance bond may be submitted instead
• An electronic certificate of insurance for work covered under the BVM Permit
• If MDOT approves the application with limitations and/or modifications, the applicant must submit the following items incorporating the limitations and/or modifications, if applicable:
  • Revised lists of the trees and shrubs to be removed or trimmed
  • A revised full-color photographic aerial map
  • A list of all required mitigation with any applicable conditions
  • A list of all additional required conditions

A failure to submit the required items within thirty (30) days of receiving notice of MDOT's decision will result in the cancellation of the application's approval. 

An applicant may pay a $150 fee to extend this deadline an additional 30 days.