Cleveland, OH Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

13(a) bars any person, firm or corporation from planting or setting out a shade tree in or on any part of a public highway within the City without first getting a written permit from the Director of Public Properties and complying with the permit's conditions. 01 as the space between the curb or pavement edge and the front edge of the sidewalk, which must be planted with grass per City construction drawings unless the Manager of Engineering and Construction approves otherwise. 13(b), before issuing a permit for planting more than 25 trees on a single permit, the Director may require a detailed planting plan or written statement in duplicate, drawn on tracing cloth in ink, with one copy returned to the applicant once approved and the other kept on file.

13(c) spells out what the plan must show accurately: the proposed street width and its pavement, curb, gutter, parking-strip and sidewalk subdivisions to scale; the location of every proposed and existing tree within the street lines; the variety of each tree, whether by label or key-list number; the spacing between trees in a row in feet; and the nature of the planting-space soil to a depth of 3 feet, along with existing and proposed drainage. Any statement filed instead of a full plan must contain the same information. 99(e).