Public Works

 

Street Landscape Maintenance

Street Landscaping activities provide landscape maintenance in public rights-of-way, and focuses on beautifying and maintaining City-owned landscaped areas. Activities provided include: vegetation and weed control; trimming shrubs and turf mowing; trimming, removal and planting of trees; cleaning and weeding planter beds; litter control, city wide.
This involves operation and maintenance of 24 City irrigation systems and backflow devises; more than 15,000 street trees, to improve aesthetics and safety; 14+ acres of ornamental planter beds, including round-abouts and traffic medians; assisting citizens and public agencies with right-of-way landscaping and trees; and hires temporary summer interns annually, as funds are available.

Street Trees

Development Standard 4.2-140

Street Tree Standards on selection, provision, planting and maintenance.  

These standards are intended to ensure that new trees planted within the public right-of-way are of the highest quality, require low maintenance, and will not compromise public safety. 


Requests for tree planting, trimming and removal will be evaluated in the order in which they are received. Priority shall be given to 1) replacement trees, 2) requests from individuals, 3) requests from neighborhood groups, 4) areas of town that have relative scarcity of trees, and 5) where high visibility along busy streets makes trees desirable for asthetic and/or traffic calming reasons.

Customer Service Requests: publicworksmail@springfield-or.gov


Telephone: (541)726-3761

 
City of Springfield, Oregon Public Works