Site Design Standards (SDS)

SDS 4.10 Street Trees

Single Family

Multi-Family

Commercial

SDS 4.10.1 Intent.

Street trees provide a continuous, shaded environment along street edges; they provide both shade and visual enclosure to streets and reduce heat island effects. When planted correctly, street trees also provide a physical and visual barrier between a pedestrian on the sidewalk and vehicles traveling on the roadway.

Standard:

SDS 4.10.2 Street Trees.

Street trees are required along all streets and roadways. Street trees shall provide both a continuous, shaded environment along roadways and a physical and visual barrier between a pedestrian on the sidewalk and vehicles on the roadway. Alleys and service drives shall not be considered streets or roadways for the purposes of this standard.

SDS 4.10.3 Standards and Species.

Street trees shall conform to the standards provided in the following table.

Street Tree Standards
Species	Street tree species shall conform to 7.16 of the Municipal Code and shall be listed in a street tree schedule in the project design manual.
Size	Large deciduous canopy trees shall be two (2) inches caliper minimum at planting; small deciduous ornamental trees shall be one and one-half (1-1/2) inches caliper minimum at planting.
Spacing	Street tree spacing shall be determined by the mature size of the tree and site features such as infrastructure and utilities; street tree spacing shall be a minimum of fifteen (15) feet and a maximum of forty (40) feet for the full length of all streets and roadways.
Configuration	Street trees shall be planted in a row that extends the full length of all streets and roadways.
Location	Street trees shall be planted within the right-of-way of all streets, accessways, and roadways, excluding thoroughfares, alleys, and service drives. If not allowed within a thoroughfare right-of-way, street trees shall be planted on the private lots along the thoroughfare right-of way.
Clearances	Street trees shall be planted at least three (3) feet from any curb or sidewalk.

SDS 4.10.4 Submittal of Landscape Plan.

With the submittal of the required landscape plan, all street tree placement shall consider the location of site distance triangles, utilities, street lights, and other public improvements. The landscape plan shall be submitted with all public improvement plans in addition to the other submittal requirements.

Don't Do This:
This street has a tree lawn with no street trees.

Do This:
This street tree is correctly located in a tree planter along a curb.	These street trees are correctly located in a tree lawn between the curb and the sidewalk.
The left side of this street has no sidewalk; the street trees are correctly located along the curb.	This street tree is correctly located in a tree well along a curb.

Effective on: 1/1/1901