Farmersville, TX Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Section 77-71, the city's landscaping requirements, applies to all new construction and to any existing development expanded by 30 percent or more of its originally approved floor area, with an exemption for uses in the downtown CA-Central Area District. Subsection (h)(16) sets the residential rule: builders of single-family and duplex parcels must plant two canopy trees per lot before a certificate of occupancy is issued, and at least one of those trees has to be in the front yard; an existing four-inch caliper tree on the lot can count toward the two-inch caliper tree requirement if it was protected during construction.

Non-residential and multifamily development faces a denser standard under (h)(4): developers must plant one canopy tree for every 40 linear feet, or portion of that, of street frontage, planted within the landscape setback along the thoroughfare. Placement is restricted too, under subsection (g): no tree may be planted closer than four feet to a right-of-way line or closer than eight feet to a public water or sewer line, and no tree with a mature height of 25 feet or more may go beneath an overhead utility line, in which case an ornamental tree has to be substituted for the required canopy tree.

A landscape plan showing the location, size and species of every required tree must be approved by the City Manager's designee before a building, paving or grading permit is issued.