The City maintains over 80, trees located in the public right-of-way. Submit a Parkway Tree Service Request Form to request parkway tree-related services such as tree trimming needs, removal of low-hanging or fallen branches, storm or construction-related damage to limbs, or clearing of obscured streetlights and stop signs.
Please review the tree trimming section before submitting a form to ensure your service request qualifies for review outside of the normal seven-year trimming cycle.
Submit a Service Request. Parkways are city rights-of-way and contains various buried utilities. In most residential areas, the parkway is the land between the curb and sidewalk. Residents are responsible for mowing and maintaining their parkway. If a home is on a corner lot or backs to another roadway, residents are required to mow the parkway on the side or rear of their home, even if the parkway is behind a fence. They are also required to shovel snow from the sidewalk.
Residents may plant parkway trees with a permit and put up a mailbox in the parkway. Trees or shrubbery planted on corner lots require special considerations, and restrictions apply to landscaping in a triangular area on corner lots. Street intersection landscaping requires frequent trimming or removal if growth will obscure motorist's vision.
Obstacles like boulders and brick mailboxes in parkways are prohibited. The City handles the trimming of parkway trees, which is currently on a seven-year cycle. The tree trimming program is intended to promote healthy, safe and attractive growth of these trees, which includes any planted in the parkway by the City or private homeowners.
