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Updated Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance AB 1881 |
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Summary
Authoring legislation
What DWR is doing
Rulemaking Process
Schedule
How to Participate
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Notice of Modifications to the Proposed Regulation
Notice of Status on the Proposed Regulation
Final Regulation Text and Final Statement of Reasons
Notice of 2nd 15-day Comment Period and Modified Text of the Regulation
Here is a .PDF of the power point
presentation we are currently using. The content in the document has not yet been approved
by the OAL and could change.
On April 1, 2009, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) returned the Model Water Efficient
Landscape Ordinance regulation filing to DWR. OAL has commented on the regulation. DWR
will respond to the comments, have 15-day public comment period, and resubmit the regulation
to OAL within 120 calendar days beginning on April 1, 2009. DWR will post the 15-day comment
period announcement on this website.
Notice of 2nd 15-day comment period and Modified Text of the Regulation
Department of Water Resources is releasing a
Notice of 15-Day Comment Period and Modified
Text of the Proposed Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance. As part of the rulemaking process, DWR
will accept written public comments on the "Modified Text of the Proposed Model Water Efficient
Landscape Ordinance" until May 26, 2009. The modification is in response to April 1, 2009, Office of
Administrative Law's comments. DWR modified the regulation and clarified technical terms.
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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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