Hialeah, FL Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Hialeah folds its street-tree standard into the development regulations for the Okeechobee Rapid Transit Zone (Division 32 of Chapter 98), the transit-oriented overlay built around the Okeechobee Metrorail station. Section 98-1622(m) tells a developer to follow Miami-Dade's Chapter 18A Landscape Code for the site's overall planting plan, then layers three site-specific exceptions on top. First, street trees go in along all streets at an average spacing of 25 feet on center, planted at a minimum four-inch caliper measured at breast height, but a tree cannot be placed where it would block the safe sight distance triangle at a driveway or intersection.

Second, the 25-foot spacing rule is waived outright wherever the building provides a colonnade along that street frontage, since the colonnade itself shades the sidewalk. Third, separate from the street-tree spacing, non-metrorail development on the site must still provide 16 trees for each net acre, a canopy-coverage backstop that applies even where colonnade credit eliminates individual street trees. Because this is an overlay-district development standard rather than a citywide public-works rule, it binds site plans reviewed by the Miami-Dade Rapid Transit Development Impact Committee and the city's planning and zoning division for parcels within the eight-area Okeechobee zone; it is not the standard for street trees elsewhere in Hialeah.