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In the name of water conservation, the high desert city of Palmdale is expected to pass a new ordinance banning traditional grass front lawns on any new residential projects, according to the Daily News.
Instead, only city-approved drought-tolerant landscaping, native plants and rocks will be legal to use. Ordinances must be heard and voted upon by the City Council twice. On Wednesday, they passed the first reading. A second reading is scheduled for October 15.
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This is great news. I was visiting a friend's place out in Apple Valley and all the lush grass lawns (on the non-foreclosed homes anyway) looked so ridiculously out of place. Anyway, zero-scaping with native drought resistant plants allows for so much more creativity and diversity in a neighborhood.
Yes, one small step toward reversing our lawn care culture. Water is going to continue to be a more and more scarce commodity in the future, and we are wasting so much of it to maintain our largest cultivated crop, grass.
I just like lawn-less front yards more from a design prospective.
Brilliant!
It'd be no less wise for LA to adopt a similar policy.
Forcing people at gunpoint (that's what a law is) to make these types of decisions - no matter how rational is never a good idea.
This is silly as long as water is priced low enough that people can afford to water lawns in the desert. Nobody will take water conservation seriously until it's scarcity is felt in the water bill.
Well, every state has its very own native species of wild grasses. I have a beautiful lush wild grass that could feed a horse very well for a week growing in my back yard. I wouldn't mind it so much for a lawn if it didn't get so tall but there's one other problem too. It needs water to survive and only grows well after winter. The other weeds choke up most of its growth too. This would be a good wild grass for livestock if it were re planted correctly in a pasture but I can't find a good native wild grass for the yard. If they want to make laws for everything like this they should use their head first and at least give us the option to buy the native wild grass seeds. I looked and couldn't find any around. I know it doesn't matter what species native or not you still have to pull these native weeds out by the roots and they will still be back next year. I give up on the whole lawn thing altogether. A lot of us do because of the native weeds.
What's wrong with non native species as long as it's in your own front yard in a container or a green house. Isn't that getting a little carried away. Every one loves turf grass.
I think that this is a terrible idea. I personally have a lawn full of Cody/Bowie Buffalo Grass Mix and its beautiful. I only have to water it once per week and it stays thick and lush. For the city to tell me that I have to remove my lawn and put in a rock garden makes me mad. Plants use CO2 and produce O2 which helps to reverse global warming. By making people remove their grass the city is adding to the GW problem. Drought tolerant grass is the way to go. NOT ROCKS!!!