Ashwaubenon, WI Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Section 11-2-78 gives Ashwaubenon's tree board control over what grows in the parkway, the terrace or boulevard strip between the curb and the lot line. Under subsection (A), the board may adopt a planting plan that designates tree species street by street, weighing mature size, terrace width, building setbacks, streetlight and signal placement, existing desirable trees, and other site factors before anything goes in the ground. Subsection (B) covers street widening: when mature trees are removed to widen an established street, the board decides whether the terrace can still support new growth and, if so, the Village pays for replacement planting and picks the location and species.

Subsection (C) governs brand-new streets: after curb installation, the board sets the species, number, location and stock size for terrace trees, and where the new street sits inside a subdivision, the subdivider bears that planting cost under Section 20-24 rather than the Village. Subsection (D) lets the board plant or remove trees along already-established streets when the terrace planting has thinned out or could be improved, but only after a public hearing preceded by 15 to 20 days' notice posted at three public locations and published once in a village-circulation newspaper.

Replanting costs there are specially assessed against adjacent lot owners in proportion to each lot's frontage, and any resident wanting to plant a tree on public property must first get written permission from the board specifying number, species, location and size, paying for it themselves. 07(9) and Ordinance No. O5-3-96 of May 28, 1996, and is current in the Village's code book updated June 24, 2026.