GA landscaping performance bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
The City of Milton’s Development Surety Bond Program, administered by the Community Development Department, 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, and the application collects no credit information.
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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 entire application.
Issued on the spot
The application collects no credit information, and most applications approve instantly. Larger amounts may get a quick review; if a check ever runs, it is a soft pull that will not touch your score.
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 the application collects no credit information.
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One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields for the standard landscaping performance bond — no credit section. Your price, from a $100 minimum, is set at application.
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Other Georgia bonds.
Plan sign-off waiting on one bond.
Premiums from $100. Enter your amount and file with the City the same day.