Shreveport does not require native landscaping. Required trees and plantings must come from the Tree and Plant Palette in UDC Section 10.12, and the MPC Executive Director may approve other species that are native or naturalized to the area.
The Unified Development Code channels plant selection through Table 10-3, the Tree and Plant Palette codified at Section 10.12. That list is explicitly not comprehensive: other species may be used if plant-zone requirements match the temperature range of the Shreveport/Caddo area and the Executive Director approves. Section 10.2.B requires landscape design to apply water-conservation principles, including careful selection and design of turf areas, use of drought-tolerant plant material, and organic mulch around plant material. Many palette entries are Louisiana natives, but nothing in the code sets a native-species percentage. New single-family and two-family homes file no landscape plan at all, so homeowners choose freely.
Planting a species outside the palette without Executive Director approval is a landscape-plan compliance issue handled during MPC review or certificate-of-occupancy inspection rather than a citation.
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