Folsom, CA Landscaping Rules: Native Plants (2026)

33 sets landscaping requirements for any subdivision or grading permit inside a designated hillside area. 190(B) requires a preliminary landscaping plan filed with any tentative subdivision or parcel map, showing how existing trees, plants and rock outcrops are worked into the design, plus a final landscaping plan submitted to the community development department before building permit issuance. Subsection (B)(4), Use of Native Plants, directs that native landscaping materials be used for street trees, parks and other common areas within hillside developments whenever practical, and tasks the community development department with maintaining the list of species treated as native to the hillside area.

16, Tree Preservation. Because the native-plant directive uses "whenever practical" rather than an absolute bar on other species, it functions as a design-review standard applied when the department reviews, conditions, approves or denies the preliminary and final landscaping plans under subsections (B)(1) through (B)(3), rather than a blanket prohibition on non-native planting on every hillside lot. 200, and a planning commission or public works decision can be appealed further to the city council within the same ten-day window.