Nashville Landscape Ordinance Update
For the first time in 20 years Nashville’s Landscape Ordinance has been significantly updated to help protect trees in the city and grow a more dense urban canopy.
In addition, the code changes require that landscape plans be submitted by a licensed Landscape Architect. Landscape Architects have special knowledge and training in horticulture and planting design that make them uniquely qualified to develop and submit landscape plans to municipalities. The process to become a licensed Landscape Architect is similar in length and intensity to the training of other licensed professionals and allows them to be sensitive to site specific soil, water, and sun exposure issues that makes them most qualified to develop landscape plans. This change is an important step forward for the profession in Nashville.
This page is a resource for Landscape Architects submitting projects in Nashville.
Important Documents
Presentation on ordinance changes - August 21, 2019
Prototypical Landscape Submittal Drawing
Street Tree Soil Volume Diagram
Important Links
Metro Nashville Urban Forestry Webpage
Tennessee Invasive Plant Council- Tennessee Invasive Exotic Tree List
Metro Historic and Specimen Tree Program
Metro Urban Forestry Recommended and Prohibited Tree and Shrub List