Walton County, GA Tree Protection: Parkway Planting (2026)

The Parkway Corridor Overlay District covers land along corridors that are, or are expected to become, multi-lane highways serving as gateways into Walton County. Section 4-2-190's Landscaping subsection requires a ten-foot-wide planted landscape strip along the entire property frontage, filled with grass, flowering plants, mulch, or other Director-approved groundcover, with evergreen shrubbery spaced no more than eight feet on center. Street trees go inside that same strip. Each tree must be spaced no more than forty feet apart, planted at a minimum caliper of two inches diameter at breast height, and stand at least six feet tall at planting, with a minimum sixteen-square-foot mulched planting area around its base.

Placement is restricted near infrastructure: no street tree may go closer than twenty-five feet to the curb line of an intersecting street or driveway, or closer than ten feet to a fire hydrant, streetlight, traffic sign, or another existing tree. Where overhead utility lines run along the right-of-way, trees must either sit at least ten feet from those lines or be a smaller species that will not grow tall enough to interfere with them. The county's neighboring Crossroads Corridor Overlay District, at Section 4-2-180, and Residential Corridor Overlay District, at Section 4-2-200, both carry their own nearly identical street tree spacing and caliper requirements for their own highway frontages.