Beautification Strategy Frequently Asked Questions

The City of Vaughan’s Beautification Strategy aims to outline a strategy that provides clarity on classification, horticulture program standard of work, service levels and a plan to implement it throughout the city of Vaughan.

The City defines beautification as the process of making visual improvements to Vaughan through the placement of flowers, ornamental grasses, trees and shrubs in beds, planters and hanging baskets.

Yes, the strategy’s scope includes all flowers, shrubs and trees in planting beds, maintained by the City. The City is responsible for maintaining more than 550 flower planters, 750 hanging baskets, 800 shrub beds and 200,000 trees across the city.

The City has concluded phase one, which included a city-wide inventory of horticultural assets (flowers, shrubs, trees and more) and is in the process of verifying the service level for each location. The City is currently in the process of updating this strategy and is seeking public feedback to ensure the new strategy meets the community’s needs.

The City is undertaking a comprehensive review of its Beautification Strategy to be certain the strategy meets the community’s needs. The City is looking to reassess and renew the strategy from 2016 by gathering feedback on service levels across the city.

The current strategy defines four service levels – premium, enhanced, standard and basic – and describes how these service levels are applied to flowerbeds, planters and hanging baskets throughout the city. The strategy also provides guidance on which plants the City should use and standards for how often these plantings will be maintained. Each level of service has its own unique maintenance schedule to assist the City in maintaining all locations within the city of Vaughan efficiently.

With the completion of the horticultural inventory, the City is looking to reassess service levels in order to meet maintenance demands and public expectation. This new plan will realign operations to specifically address community needs.

The public is invited to share feedback through the Beautification Strategy Update survey. It will be available from April 3 to April 18.

Call Access Vaughan at 905-832-2281. The call centre will create a work order and ensure that your request gets delivered to the City’s Horticulture team.

Currently, the public can access the service levels of each classification and definition. The City is working towards developing a maintenance timeframe to outline scheduled maintenance windows.

Whether or not your street is eligible for more flowers depends on its location and classification. The City is open to working in partnership with community groups to beautify areas throughout the community.

Business owners can sponsor a flower bed through the Grow With Vaughan program. Grow With Vaughan is the City’s horticulture partnership program offering budget-friendly, highly visible sponsorship opportunities for local businesses. The program provides the opportunity to build brand awareness in a targeted community along with positive brand association by contributing to the quality of life and beautification of the neighbourhood businesses operate in. In addition, the City’s Curb Appeal program is a private house