Miramar, FL Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

10 of the Land Development Code designates Miramar Parkway a Scenic Corridor and dedicates a landscape easement in perpetuity along the roadway, recorded on every plat and site plan that touches it. 3 sets the corridor's minimum width at 30 feet from Palm Avenue to Southwest 196th Avenue, layered on top of, not in place of, the city's ordinary perimeter landscaping and street-tree requirements. 4 requires one tree for every 30 lineal feet of frontage, spaced no more than 75 feet apart, with at least 75 percent shade trees and no more than 25 percent ornamental.

Three-quarters of the required trees must be a native species, and trees must stand at least 12 feet tall with a six-foot crown spread and two-inch caliper at planting. Shrubs are required at one per 10 lineal feet, clustered in groups of at least eight, spaced no more than 30 inches apart and at least 24 inches tall when planted. 1 requires berming across at least 75 percent of the corridor's lineal frontage, with berms rising a minimum of two feet at their low point and four feet at the crown, smooth, undulating and meandering rather than abrupt.

3 allows the Community Development Director to substitute a masonry wall, ornamental fence or comparable landscape element at least four feet high, again covering 75 percent of the frontage. The City Commission may grant a variance from the easement width only on a documented hardship, such as a water body or unusually narrow lot, and never by more than 50 percent of the required width.