Round Rock, TX Landscaping Rules: Artificial Turf (2026)

The Unified Development Code requires new single-family and two-family homes in the SF-2, SF-3, and TF zoning districts to landscape yards with drought-tolerant turfgrass, capped at 50% of the lot area not covered by buildings or hardscaping, plus a set number of trees by lot width. Section 8-10's general planting rules, which these residential standards echo, state flatly that artificial plant material cannot be substituted to hit those numbers. The same ban on synthetic ground cover applies to landscaping required for parking lots, buffers, and commercial sites under the same section.