Southaven, MS Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

Sec. 13-10(a) requires landscaping to be provided and maintained for any new development in the City of Southaven. For new development other than single-family residential, a landscape plan drawn to scale goes to the design review board and planning staff, with a plant legend showing size (caliper, height or pot size), spacing, quantity and type.

Sec. 13-10(b) then fixes the streetscape along public road rights-of-way in three types, chosen by whether parking or a vehicular drive aisle sits next to the strip. Type A applies where parking faces the public right-of-way. It is a twenty-foot wide area with a landscape island of ten (10) feet by twenty (20) feet minimum in the parking area every eight (8) spaces. Each island gets one (1) major shade tree, a single staggered row of evergreen shrubs, and three (3) ornamental trees planted twenty (20) feet on center between each pair of shade trees.

Type B applies where no parking is present but a vehicle drive aisle sits on the lot next to the strip, in a twenty-five-foot wide area. Option B1 is one (1) major shade tree every eighty (80) feet with the shrub row and ornamental trees. Option B2 is one (1) major shade tree every forty (40) feet with the shrub row and a berm three (3) feet in height. Type C applies where the lawn between a building and the right-of-way is unbroken by parking or a travel surface, in a twenty-five-foot wide area with one (1) major shade tree every forty (40) feet.

Sec. 13-10(i) sets plant size: trees must come from the acceptable list or be approved administratively by the office of planning and development, with a minimum three and one-half-inch caliper at planting, and shrubs must be at least three (3) gallons at planting. Trees on public land fall under the seven-member volunteer city tree board created by Sec. 13-11(h).