Sidewalk Landscaping Permits
Jul
12
This came up on the SFGov.org site this morning,
The Department of Public Works – Bureau of Urban Forestry is now accepting permits for sidewalk landscaping. In addition to planting trees, this permit allows property owners to convert a portion of the sidewalk in front of their property into an attractive landscaped area. It looks great, provides habitat, reduces flooding, and is good for property values!To apply for a sidewalk landscaping permit, review the instructions and fill out the application [on the SFGov site]. DPW staff will be happy to assist you.
See photos of some example projects on the PlantSF site here.
How-To Install Permeable Landscaping [PlantSF]
Sidewalk landscaping permits available [SFGate]
Garden transforms a mean street [SFGate]
New fee duns residents for railings, greenery [SFHomeBlog]
What a great idea. Friends of the Urban Forest, http://www.FUF.net, does a great job of getting more trees into the ground around the city. This seems a good extension. Some areas are either not big enough for trees or other issues exist but this gets rid of some of the concrete.
CameronRex at July 12th, 2006 at 6:03 pm ( )Sadly, my place is the only place on the block with anything in front of our house (a small tree and two small plants). And sadly, that makes it an attractive location for people to dump their trash.
And of course, the city doesn’t come by and pick up the trash that got into the planted area, they just clean the sidewalks. So ironically, the trash would have been better taken care of if the litterer just threw it on the sidewalk.
Anonymous at July 13th, 2006 at 7:32 pm ( )