Parker |
Municipal Code |
Title 6. Health and Safety |
Chapter 6.05. Prohibition on Restrictive Covenants Requiring Turf Grasses |
§ 6.05.010. Legislative purpose.
The water demand of traditional landscaping can result in an extraordinary burden on the future water resources of the Parker Water and Sanitation District and the Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District. Traditional landscapes, improperly installed and maintained over unimproved soils and requiring irrigation systems that are often inefficient and poorly managed, have been documented as using between twenty (20) and fifty (50) gallons of water per square foot each year. This is far beyond the recommended eighteen (18) gallons of water per square foot of landscaping (or twenty-nine [29] inches of applied irrigation water) each growing season. By using water-wise principles in landscaping, Town residents could reduce water use by at least twenty percent (20%).
(Ord. 5.63 §1, 2003)