Shady Streets

Neighborhood trees provide great benefits to our community: helping with air pollution, increasing property values, and of course, creating shade to help with our hot summers.

Shady Streets is the MUTP's multi-year program to augment the City's ability to provide shade to our South Sacramento streets. Our area has significantly less trees along its streets than other areas of Sacramento.

The City can only plant trees along the streets in our community that have "sidewalk strips" between the sidewalk and the curb. (Properties that have sidewalk strips that need trees can call 311 for more information.)

Streets without these strips will not get improvements from the City as a part of the newly adopted Urban Forest Plan.

The MUTP is dedicated to achieving "shade equity" for all South Sacramento streets. The Shady Streets program will focus on activating the homeowners and business on affected streets to plant trees to provide shade for these streets, by means of education and incentives.

Details of the program will be forthcoming. In the meantime, if you have suggestions for program implementation or funding suggestions, please email: ShadyStreets@mutp.org