Carroll County, GA Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Carroll County's Corridor Development Plan ordinance (Code § 102-16, Appendix A, Article IV) sets the street-tree planting standard for development inside the county's mapped transportation corridor overlay in unincorporated Carroll County. Table 4-1 requires street trees for multi-family, retail/service/office and industrial development; single-family subdivisions are exempt from the street-tree line but still owe bufferyards. 4(B) sets the underlying landscape-area floor: total landscape area cannot fall below 15 percent of the project area for multi-family, commercial and industrial development, and that area must include required screening, foundation landscaping, parking-lot landscaping, bufferyards and street trees together.

4(I), captioned 'Streetscape,' is the parkway-planting rule itself: applicants must provide a minimum ten-foot wide landscaped strip between every road right-of-way and the back-of-curb of any abutting off-street paved parking lot, and must plant at least one tree every 100 linear feet along the street frontage. 4(A): deciduous trees at least two-inch caliper measured six inches above ground, evergreens at least five to six feet tall at planting. 7 lets the county require a cash escrow or irrevocable letter of credit equal to one and one-half times the estimated planting cost when weather delays installation.

Because Appendix A implements the Corridor Development Plan, these street-tree standards bind only development along the county's designated transportation corridor, not every unincorporated parcel, and they never apply inside Carrollton, Villa Rica, Temple, Bowdon, Whitesburg, Mount Zion or Roopville.