Menifee, CA Landscaping Rules: Tree Removal & Heritage Trees (2026)

The City of Menifee Landscape Standards require an Existing Conditions plan with every project application and conceptual landscape plan (unless waived by the city) showing all existing native, naturalized, and ornamental trees, shrubs, ground cover, street trees, and parkway plantings. Living trees with trunk diameters in excess of three inches must be surveyed and plotted on the plan. Existing on-site trees must be retained unless the city approves their removal; living trees approved for removal must be replaced as required in the project conditions of approval, with replacement trees (including container sizes and quantities) clearly indicated on landscape construction documents.

The plan must also show areas to remain in a natural state and the location, type, and quantity of vegetation to be removed. Street trees in the public right-of-way may not be removed or altered without authorization from the Public Works/Engineering Department, which can require an encroachment maintenance and removal agreement. Menifee does not have a citywide heritage-tree permit requirement for ordinary single-family lots outside the development process; tree removal there is governed by general nuisance and fire-hazard provisions and any project-specific conditions.