Georgia landscaping performance bonds.
From $100.
The City of Milton’s Development Surety Bond Program can require a landscaping performance bond before final approval of a site development or landscape plan, guaranteeing that the required trees, buffers, and plantings actually go in the ground. Premiums cost 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum.
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How much does a Georgia landscaping performance bond cost?
0.5% of the bond amount, from $100. Enter your amount in the calculator for the exact price.
Three steps. One sitting.
No long underwriting queue for the standard landscaping performance bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the City. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your project details, the bond amount stated on your approved landscape or site development plan, and the effective date — that is the application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check up to $100,000, and most applications approve instantly.
File with the City
Submit the executed bond to Milton’s Community Development Department to satisfy the Development Surety Bond Program requirement on your project. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the landscaping performance bond actually guarantees
When the City of Milton approves a site development plan, its landscape ordinance and tree-canopy standards can require buffers, replacement trees, and other plantings as a condition of approval. The City’s Development Surety Bond Program, run by the Community Development Department, lets a developer post a landscaping performance bond instead of installing everything before the City signs off — the bond guarantees the work gets finished afterward.
It is a completion guarantee, not insurance for the developer: if the required landscaping is not installed to the approved plan within the agreed period, the City can draw on the bond to have the work completed. Once the City’s inspector confirms the landscaping is in and conforms to the approved plan, the bond is released.
Milton’s program does not publish a single statutory formula for the amount — the Community Development Department sets the figure to the estimated cost of the landscaping shown on your approved plan. Enter that figure; premiums are priced at 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum, and no credit check up to $100,000.
You need this bond if you are
Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the City. Submit the executed bond to Milton’s Community Development Department to satisfy the Development Surety Bond Program requirement on your project. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is 0.5% of the bond amount, $100 minimum: the amount the obligee sets moves the price, not your business profile.
No credit check up to $100,000. Above that, the carrier may run a soft pull, which never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields. No credit check up to $100,000. Your price, from a $100 minimum, is set at application.
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Premiums from $100. Enter your amount and file with the City the same day.