City Plants

DESCRIPTION City Plants offers free shade trees for home yards, schools, apartments, commercial properties, and parkways for homes and whole neighborhoods (the strip lawn between the sidewalk and the street). The program takes care of the whole City process of permitting and planting street trees. Yard trees are delivered to your home for residents to plant. Parkway trees are selected by an arborist who visits the site, but there are a variety of yard trees that may be chosen by the applicant. Over 30 different species are available for yard planting: www.cityplants.org/yard-tree-species-list

The program also allows for volunteer City Plants Block Leaders to sign up neighbors for the street tree program using a basic sign-up sheet, or Block Leader Form.

DESCRIPTION Residents or business owners in the City of Los Angeles.

REQUIREMENTS • Applicant must accept responsibility to sufficiently water the trees (10 to 15 gallons a week) for their first 3 years and as needed thereafter. • Single family home renters should discuss planting trees with the homeowner before applying. • Street trees must have grass or open dirt between the sidewalk and the street. • Multi-family dwelling residents can request street trees for in front of their apartment buildings with the permission of the building owner, property manager, or HOA board. Are there any special requirements to complete the application? For yard trees, applicants must create a tree planting plan online, which takes some proficiency on computers to accomplish.

HOW TO APPLY Phone: Call 213-473-9950 Online: Submit form directly at www.cityplants.org/our-programs. Block leader applications may also be submitted online at www.cityplants. org/our-programs/street-trees/street-trees-for-your-neighborhood, scanned and emailed to bpw.tree.request@lacity.org or Mail to: City Plants Attn: Block Leader Program 200 N. Spring Street, M-152 Los Angeles, CA 90012

City Plants

PARTNERING AGENCY Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)

PROGRAM TYPE Home Upgrades; Efficiency, Greening

TARGETED APPLICANT Residential, Commercial

ELIGIBLE AREAS City of Los Angeles

RANGE OF ASSISTANCE Up to seven trees for yard planting. One parkway tree per lot or multiple trees throughout neighborhood.

TIME FRAME Ongoing

EXPECTED TIME TO RECEIVE BENEFITS Checks usually take 3-4 weeks to be processed after all documentation is received by SCAQMD.

WEBSITE www.cityplants.org

CONTACT Phone: 213-473-9950 Inquiry Form: www.cityplants.org/ contact-us