Shade Tree Plans, Reports, & Resources

All Things Trees!

• DPW Forestry and Shade Tree Commission Introduce Citywide Significant Tree Registry
• New Shade Tree Commission Equitable Street Tree Investment Plan (2021)(PDF, 703KB)
• City of Pittsburgh Department of Public Works Forestry Division
  Details processes and plan, including Approved and Prohibited Species lists
• Pittsburgh City Code - Trees
• Pittsburgh City Code - Zoning, Landscaping, and Screening Standards
• City Planning FAQ
• 2017 Mayor’s Tree Protection Taskforce Executive Order(PDF, 86KB)
• Street Tree Management Plan (2018)
• Operations Review City of Pittsburgh Forestry Division - Davey Resource Group (2015)(PDF, 1MB)
• Pittsburgh Street Tree Inventory (2014)
• Pittsburgh Street Tree Interactive Map Managed by City Innovation & Performance
• 2010 Allegheny County Urban Tree Canopy Report
• 2012 Urban Forest Master Plan 20 Year Roadmap to Protect and Restore Pittsburgh’s Urban Forest
• Tree Benefits Calculator (by Address) Identifies and Quantifies the Benefits a Tree Can Provide to Individual Addresses
• Pittsburgh I-Tree Ecosystem Analysis (2015)
• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s TreeVitalize Resources
• TreeVitalize + City Forestry Street Tree Applications the Application Round for Fall 2021 is Now Open Until June 1, 2021
• Tree Pittsburgh Resources

City of Pittsburgh

• 311
  Report quality-of-life issues to the city and access 100’s of knowledge base articles , by phone, web portal, MyBurgh app, or Twitter
• Climate Action Plan 3.0
• City Planning’s Pittsburgh Map
  Search by layers like City Council Districts, DPW divisions, Wards, or Ballfields
• City of Pittsburgh Operating Budgets
• City of Pittsburgh Capital Budgets
• Beacon the Office of Management & Budget’s eProcurement System
• Open Book
  City Controller’s searchable database of City contracts from 1990-current
• Department of Mobility & Infrastructure Policies and Standards
  Including Right-of-Way manual
• City Department Director List
• City Job Postings and Descriptions

More Resources

• Western PA Regional Data Center
  Open Data portal with 328 data sets, operated by the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research
• Allegheny County Real Estate Portal
  Searchable database by address or parcel to determine owner/ mailing address/ tax status. (pro tip: Hit ‘Print’ for a property to generate aerial map that incl. surrounding parcels )

Contact Us

If you know of a great resource that we are missing here please write to us at ShadeTreeCommission@PittsburghPA.gov to let us know!

last updated: 22/04/2025