PayByPhone: The City Of Pompano Beach Swaps Parking Meters For Trees

The City of Pompano Beach has signed up to Meters for Trees, the multi-award-winning tree planting initiative from PayByPhone, the global leader in mobile parking payments, effective immediately.

Jeff Lantz, Parking Manager, the City of Pompano Beach, says, “Meters for Trees is a meaningful and easy way for us to move toward an eco-friendlier future by ensuring we are not only addressing air quality for our residents and visitors but also supporting our own environment through local tree planting.”

PayByPhone, a parking payments provider for the City of Pompano Beach since 2021, across its nine on- and off-street parking locations, first launched Meters for Trees in the UK in 2019, as part of its broader environmental campaigns including Green December. These initiatives help forward-thinking cities, universities, and parking operators reduce their costly parking hardware as they opt for a mobile app-based parking service. Over the past five years, PayByPhone’s environmental campaigns have collectively planted over 225,000 trees globally.

Under the terms of Meters for Trees, PayByPhone will plant one tree for every multi-space pay station and for every ten single space parking meters that are removed in the City of Pompano Beach, totaling 11 trees, in 2025. Trees will be planted in Withlacoochee State Forest, through PayByPhone’s partner, veritree, an organization that connects businesses with verified tree planting projects to elevate global reforestation.

Meters for Trees supports the City of Pompano Beach in furthering its sustainability initiatives by removing parking hardware and planting trees while at the same time saving costs.

By removing payment hardware and planting trees, CO₂ is absorbed by each newly planted tree as it grows, directly benefitting the local environment through carbon footprint reduction as CO₂ is sequestered from the atmosphere.

Digital parking payments also eliminate the need for cash collection vehicles that would be emitting harmful tailpipe gasses as well as reduce costly compliance issues for the City with expensive card readers in the payment hardware.

Carmen Donnell, Managing Director North America for PayByPhone, says, “We’re proud to work alongside partners like the City of Pompano Beach who share our vision of sustainability and environmental stewardship. In welcoming the City to our Meters for Trees campaign, we are making a meaningful step toward building a greener tomorrow.”

Meters for Trees is a multi-award-winning initiative, having won 12 international awards, including a Global Gold Award at the 2019 Green World Environment Awards in the Carbon Reduction and Local Authorities categories, the Green Champion Award in Carbon Reduction at the 2019 Green Apple Environment Awards, and the Environmental Initiative Award at the 2020 SEAL Business Sustainability Awards.

The City of Pompano joins The City of South Miami and The City of Coral Gables, Florida, The City of Olympia, Washington, and The City of Allentown, Pennsylvania, who joined Meters for Trees in 2025.

For more information about Meters for Trees, please visit www.paybyphone.com/meters-for-trees.

About PayByPhone 

PayByPhone’s aim is simple: simplify your journey so you can focus on what matters most. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services AG, it is one of the fastest-growing mobile payments companies in the world, processing more than $550 million in payments and over 5 million downloads per year. Available in more than 1,200 cities across the globe, PayByPhone helps millions of consumers easily and safely pay for parking without the hassles of coins, lines, or fines. Its smart, intuitive technology is at the center of its user-first approach, delivered to make everything as simple as possible. For more information, please visit www.paybyphone.com.