Harrison County, MS Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Harrison County's Unified Development Code sets a specific street-tree planting standard for the strip between a parking lot or driveway and the public right-of-way. 06(b), any vehicular use area that abuts a public right-of-way must include, within its five-foot perimeter landscape buffer, one large tree for every fifty linear feet of right-of-way frontage, or one small tree for every thirty-five linear feet of frontage. The Code specifies that trees must be sited so that, at maturity, they will not intersect overhead power lines, and it cross-references Exhibit 2 for the layout.

07, which instead requires one tree per twenty parking spaces inside the lot itself. 12: an eight-foot perimeter buffer and one large Southern Magnolia or Live Oak every sixty linear feet of frontage, reflecting the corridor's designation as a scenic route. 09(c) makes the property owner, manager, tenant and their agent jointly responsible for keeping the planted buffer alive and healthy afterward, with dead plant material required to be replaced within thirty days.