A good ornamental tree for a smaller yard is a Japanese Tree Lilac (Ivory Silk Lilac, pruned to tree form.) This tree flowers late in the season, long after most other trees are done.
As for planting on city property, I did research this. Supposedly, you can get a utility line assignment and an excavation permit to do this, but when I inquired about this, the permits department had no clue what I was talking about.
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