Kendall County, IL Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Section 36-366(3) of the Kendall County Code, adopted by Ordinance No. 2020-17 on September 15, 2020, sets the parkway (street) tree planting standard for the RPD-1 Residential Planned Development district and, through Section 36-408, for the RPD-2 district as well. Developers building new subdivisions inside these planned development classifications must provide shade trees along the street frontage at a ratio of at least one tree for every 40 linear feet of frontage; the ordinance describes this as a floor, so a developer can plant more but never fewer.

The code leaves exact spacing and species to be worked out with the Planning, Building & Zoning (PBZ) Department, stating that appropriate location of parkway tree planting is determined at the time of final plat approval, and it directs that plantings generally sit within the required front yard of home sites rather than in the road right-of-way itself. This requirement sits inside the broader Section 36-366 development standards article, alongside companion rules for street access, sidewalks and building-foundation landscaping, and it applies only to land platted as RPD-1 or RPD-2, not to conventional A-1, R-1 or other district subdivisions, which fall under the separate landscaping provisions of the County's Chapter 30 subdivision regulations.

Because RPD tree counts are locked in at final plat, the requirement functions as a subdivision-approval condition rather than a permit a homeowner applies for separately; PBZ reviews the landscape plan when the final plat is submitted for County Board approval, and the tree count becomes part of the recorded development standards for that subdivision.