Buena Park, CA Landscaping Rules: Weed Ordinances (2026)

20 governs what happens in the parkway abutting a Buena Park home or business. 020 bars a property owner from planting a tree, shrub or vegetation other than grass without a permit from the director of public works (subsection A), from cutting, injuring, destroying or removing vegetation or any ornament or improvement except through a city employee (subsection B), from paving or resurfacing any part of the parkway (subsection C), and, under subsection D, from letting any vegetation grow more than twenty-four inches above the curb or obstruct the adjoining sidewalk or street.

030 places the maintenance burden on residentially zoned owners: they must install grass and properly maintain all parkway landscaping (though they aren't responsible for watering a city tree planted there), notify public works of any tree hazard, and, where the parkway was lawfully paved before the ordinance, keep that paving free of hazards or remove it and landscape the area on written notice from the director. 040; the director issues it if the vegetation is a private nuisance, the wrong species for the street, or removal is otherwise justified, and can require the applicant to deposit funds for a replacement tree, forfeited if the permit conditions aren't met. A denied applicant may appeal to the city council, which can order the permit issued after its own investigation.