Parma, OH Landscaping Rules: Tree Trimming (2026)

11(a) directs the Director of Public Service to keep every tree standing on public property trimmed so branches projecting over a public sidewalk, a private driveway, or into a public street beyond the curb line stay at least nine feet above the ground. Subsection (b) extends the same nine-foot clearance duty to private property owners and occupants whose trees have branches reaching into public streets, highways or places; a tighter five-foot clearance applies to branches in a side yard within 15 feet of where a driveway meets the public sidewalk.

Subsection (c) lets the Director order a private owner in writing to trim a noncompliant tree, and if the owner refuses or neglects to do so by the notice deadline, the Director can have the trimming done at the owner's expense, with the cost becoming a lien on the property. Subsection (d) separately declares five categories of trees, plants and shrubs on private property to be nuisances, including any with roots penetrating a public street, any diseased plant able to spread infection, any tree likely to fall on public or private property, any branches obstructing traffic (branches overhanging a sidewalk, pavement or roadway within nine feet are presumed to obstruct traffic), and any growth blocking sightlines including a neighbor's driveway view. Subsection (e) bars knowingly creating, maintaining or refusing to abate any of those nuisances.