Frisco, TX Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

05, Street Frontage Landscape Areas, sets the planting standard for the parkway strip between a development and the public thoroughfare, and the requirement varies by street type. Street Type S1, Urban Street Frontage, requires a fifteen-foot minimum sidewalk to the building and 'Canopy shade trees 30' on center, in tree wells or grates,' applicable where a Build-to-Line is in effect. Street Type S2, Slip Road Street Frontage, required in the Preston Road Overlay and optional elsewhere, calls for an eight-foot landscape buffer with canopy shade trees planted in three rows aligned and centered in landscape spaces between the parking aisle and the roadway, plus enhanced brick or concrete paving bands.

Street Type S3, Double Row Street Frontage, required in the Preston Road Overlay where a slip road is not feasible, sets a thirty-foot landscape buffer (fifty feet in the Preston Road Overlay Rural Corridor) with canopy shade trees in two aligned rows, spaced thirty feet on center and at least four feet from pavement. S. Highway 380, State Highway 121, and the Dallas North Tollway, with canopy shade trees in a single row centered in the landscape edge, again spaced thirty feet on center. Every street type ties its planting requirement to the City of Frisco Engineering Standards for thoroughfare classification, so the applicable spacing depends on which thoroughfare type fronts the lot.