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September 19, 2008
Palmdale Looking to Ban Grass Front Lawns
Native Grass | Photo by Donnaphoto via Flickr
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.
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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.
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I just like lawn-less front yards more from a design prospective.
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Brilliant!
It'd be no less wise for LA to adopt a similar policy.
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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.
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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.