Manitou Springs, CO Landscaping Rules: Tree Trimming (2026)

6 of the Land Use and Development Code governs streetscape landscaping for commercial and multi-household development along collector and arterial streets, and for single-household subdivisions with tree lawns along local streets. Applicants must plant a minimum of one deciduous street tree per forty linear feet of street frontage; where frontage runs shorter than forty feet, at least one tree is still required, spaced evenly with the trees on the adjacent parcel. Street trees go in the right-of-way, or within ten feet of the back of the sidewalk if the right-of-way lacks room, and must run on automatic underground irrigation with lines sleeved beneath sidewalks and pavement.

5: street trees have to be limbed up to keep a minimum eight-foot clearance above every sidewalk, so a property owner who lets a street tree's canopy sag over a walkway is out of compliance with a Development Plan condition, not just informal city preference. A companion rule caps mature height at twenty-five feet for any tree planted under or within ten feet of overhead power lines, which keeps canopy trimming from becoming a recurring utility conflict. 5, which requires replacement at ratios up to six new two-inch-caliper trees for a single removed tree of twenty-four inches or larger in caliper. 6 is met.