Introduction. Today, creation of a comfortable urban environment is an important task of improving the lives of city residents, and the activities of public authorities are aimed at solving this task. Numerous strategic planning documents highlight the need to form a comfortable level of residence. At the same time, the unfavorable environmental situation poses new challenges when planning measures to create a comfortable urban environment. Understanding the processes of greening this area makes it possible to form an integrated approach that ensures this process in terms of its compliance with environmental requirements and regulations. Theoretical analysis. The content of the “comfortable urban environment” category was analyzed in order to determine the structure of the mechanism for its greening and to develop a legal approach to its definition. At the same time, special emphasis was placed on goal-setting as an axiological technique that allows us to substantiate the essence of certain phenomena and processes from the point of view of the goals of their implementation, stipulated, fi rst of all, in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. It has been determined that it is the rights of citizens that are the goal of activities related to the greening of a comfortable urban environment. Empirical analysis. It has been revealed that the formation of a comfortable urban environment is a complex activity that is implemented through urban planning, landscaping, and housing policy. It is these areas that should be subject to environmentalization in order to create a comfortable urban environment and ensure the constitutional rights of citizens. Results. Based on a systematic approach, the paper concludes that the legal nature of the greening of a comfortable urban environment is a comprehensive legal and organizational mechanism for implementing environmental requirements and standards in urban planning, landscaping, and housing policy in order to guarantee their constitutional right to a decent life.