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Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance -- AB 325
In September 1990, Governor Pete Wilson signed Assembly Bill 325 directing the Department of Water Resources to adopt
a Model Local Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance by
January 1, 1992. A Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance was created by an advisory taskforce of interested stakeholders
such as landscape and construction industry professionals, members of environmental protection groups, water agencies and
state and local government. By January 1993, local agencies were to either adopt a Local Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance,
adopt the State Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance or make a statement that due to water availability and other
factors an ordinance was not necessary. Cities and counties are required to enforce the ordinance as it applies to new and
rehabilitated public and private landscapes that require a permit and on developer installed residential landscapes. The
ordinance does not apply to landscapes under 2,500 square feet, homeowner-installed residential landscapes, cemeteries,
registered historical sites and ecological restoration and mined reclamation areas without permanent irrigation systems. |
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