Tree Protection in Utah (2026)

Salt Lake City requires developers to preserve city forester-designated "specimen" trees on private land, fence off…

Sandy's Urban Forester may identify, mark, and preserve historic and notable trees under the Utah Heritage Tree Act…

Eagle Mountain's urban forester works with the parks and community development departments to identify, mark and…

Provo City Code 9.20.160 lets the Forestry Division and Energy Board list rare or historic trees on the Heritage Tree…

South Jordan's Urban Forester can identify and preserve historic trees and nominate them to the Utah Heritage Tree…

St. George's Shade Tree and Beautification Board can nominate trees that are rare, endangered, or historically…

Lehi has no local heritage-tree designation of its own: heritage trees are defined and designated at the state level…

West Jordan's Urban Forestry Division and Parks Department keep a Heritage Tree List of rare or historically…

Eagle Mountain protects trees with historic value, unique quality, significant girth or height, or protected-species…

Salt Lake City requires new development to preserve 'specimen trees', sound, healthy trees over 10 inches in trunk…

St. George's shade tree and beautification board is directed to encourage protection of rare, endangered, or…

Every new arterial and collector street in Eagle Mountain gets developer-installed, irrigated street trees in the park…

Layton requires street trees in the park strip along both sides of every street, spaced every 30 feet on center up to a…

Planting a tree in the Lehi park strip between curb and sidewalk requires a free Parks Department permit, a strip at…

Orem lets adjacent property owners plant new trees in the parkway strip between the sidewalk and the street, but only…

Provo runs parkway tree planting through the Forestry Division under Code 9.20.090. New homeowners must pay a public…

Salt Lake City requires at least one street tree per park strip, with more added based on frontage length, and Urban…

Landscaped areas along a street in Salt Lake County, including park strips, must include one tree for every 25 linear…

Sandy's citywide landscaping standards put parkstrip upkeep on the adjacent property owner and only allow street trees…

St. George requires developers to plant street trees in the parkway strip that meet size, species and spacing standards…

Washington County bans grass in park strips, the narrow landscaped band between the back of curb and the sidewalk, on…

Weber County requires every new subdivision to submit a landscaping plan covering park strips and street cross…

In West Jordan's City Center zone, street trees must go in a five-foot minimum amenity zone between the curb and…

West Valley City makes the abutting property owner responsible for watering and maintaining street trees in the…

South Jordan directs that trees planted in park strips match the City's street tree list and follow its construction…