Legal Documents of Sweetwater

To avoid damage to utility lines and landscape plants, all trees and shrubs should be planted outside of existing and proposed utility easements. Where overhead power lines cross an area required by the ordinance to be planted with shade trees or canopy trees, understory trees should be substituted. In highly visible areas and where an understory tree cannot be planted, the tree( s) should be planted in the same general area where it can be seen from the street or parking lot.

No shrubs, pampas grass, or other similar vegetation should be planted within three feet (3') of a fire hydrant. No trees should be planted within five feet (5') of a fire hydrant. (as added by Ord. #832, Jan. 2009, and replaced by Ord. #935, Jan. 2016)