1. Springville
2. Parks & Recreation
3. Forestry
4. Street Trees

Street Trees

Street Trees are trees acceptable for planting in planter strips. Street trees should be large shade trees that adapt well to a street tree application. Street trees may not be planted in planter strips that are less than 72” wide. The planting of any street trees must be done under the direction of the Director of Parks and Recreation.

General Regulations

• Street trees should only be planted in planted strips that are a minimum of 6 feet wide.
• Street trees planted in planter strips less than 6 feet wide are subject to removal if they block sidewalk access, block traffic access, raise the sidewalk or curb, or cause public safety problems.
• All street trees are to be planted, pruned, and/or removed by City Urban Forestry staff.
• Street trees should only be of approved species.
• Any trees planted under power lines must be power line approved species.

Acceptable Species

Cultivars of the listed species may be used.

Ash Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Oregon Ash	Fraxinus latifolia
White Ash	Fraxinus americana

Cypress Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Bald Cypress	Taxodium distichum

Elm Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Accolade Elm	Ulmus x ‘Accolade’
American Elm	Ulmus americana
Danada Charm Elm	Ulmus x ‘Danada Charm’
Frontier Elm	Ulmus x ‘Frontier’
Lacebark Elm	Ulmus parvifolia
New Horizon Elm	Ulmus x ‘New Horizon’
Pioneer Elm	Ulmus x ‘Pioneer’
“Prospector Elm”	Ulmus x ‘Prospector’
Triumph Elm	Ulmus x ‘Triumph’

Linden Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
American Linden	Tilia americana
Crimean Linden	Tilia x euchlora
Silver Linden	Tilia tomentosa

Maple Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Black Maple	Acer nigrum
Hedge Maple	Acer campestre
Norwegian Sunset Maple	Acer truncatum x Acer platanoides
State Street Maple	Acer miyabei

Oak Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Bur Oak	Quercus macrocarpa
Chinkapin Oak	Quercus muhelenbergii
Swamp White Oak	Quercus bicolor

Miscellaneous Trees
Common Name	Botanical Name
Amur Corktree	Phellodendron amurense
Amur Maackia	Maackia amurensis
Autumn Splendor Horsechestnut	Aesculus x arnoldiana
Black Locust	Robinia pseudoacacia
European Beech	Fagus sylvatica
Hackberry	Celtis occidentalis
Hardy Rubber Tree	Eucommia ulmoides
Japanese Pagoda Tree	Sophora japonica
Japanese Zelkova	Zelkova serrata
Kentucky Coffee Tree	Gymnocladus dioicus
Sugarberry	Celtis laevigata
Tulip Tree	Liriodendron tulipife

Power Lines and Street Trees

The following area acceptable Street Tree are acceptable for planting under power lines.

Trees planted under power lines may not achieve a mature height of more than 25 feet.

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