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Hollywood is one of Broward's original cities — Joseph Young's 1920s planned resort town grown to 153,067 residents (2020 census) — and its tree stock shows the century: grand ficus hedges planted by long-gone owners, mango and avocado trees from the era when every yard had one, and Brazilian pepper that has had a hundred years to naturalize into every alley and vacant lot between Young Circle and the turnpike.
Clearing here is infill work in the oldest housing fabric this side of the county line. Fifty-foot lots, vintage block homes, detached garages on rear alleys — and vegetation that outgrew all of it decades ago. The premium skills are tight access, surgical removals near old structures, and knowing which of the yard's veterans (the mango stays, the ficus by the sewer line does not) deserve their place.
Ficus: the tree that ate Hollywood
No species defines old-Broward yard problems like ficus. Planted as fast privacy hedges for generations, it builds root systems that lift driveways, invade sewer laterals, and heave foundations — and its response to every trim is to grow faster. Removal on these lots is engineering-adjacent: roots traced before cutting, stumps ground deep, and hardscape damage documented so repairs are scoped honestly. The species guidance at UF/IFAS EDIS explains the growth habit; every plumber in Hollywood can supply the anecdotes.
The counterweight: fruit trees from the same era are usually keepers. A producing mango in a Hollywood backyard is fifty years of shade and fruit no nursery can sell you — clearing plans here get drawn tree by tree.
Alleys, additions, and access on vintage lots
Hollywood's older plats come with rear alleys, detached structures, and additions that closed off yesterday's access. Machines get sized to what the lot allows — often a mini loader through a side setback measured in inches to spare — and some jobs run as hybrid hand-and-machine operations. Utility locates matter doubly in hundred-year-old ground where services were laid, abandoned, and re-laid across generations; the city's development resources at hollywoodfl.org and county records via Broward.org help reconstruct what's under a parcel before steel finds it.