Bishop actively encourages water-efficient, low-water-use landscaping. Its Water-Efficient Landscapes ordinance (BMC Ch. 13.07) applies to new and rehabilitated landscaping and promotes drought-tolerant plantings suited to the Eastern Sierra.
Bishop Municipal Code Chapter 13.07 (Water-Efficient Landscapes) sets landscape and irrigation goals for all new and rehabilitated landscaping on public, commercial, residential and development projects. Section 13.07.020 directs the City to 'encourage low water use landscapes' while recognizing low, medium and high-water zones depending on soil and groundwater. It also promotes irrigation without overspray onto paving and bars irrigation runoff into streets or alleys. Native and drought-tolerant plants fit these goals well and reduce watering under the City's drought stages. No ordinance forbids traditional lawns, but water-efficient and native designs are the encouraged standard.
New or rehabilitated projects that fail the Ch. 13.07 water-efficiency standards can be denied approval or required to revise landscape and irrigation plans; runoff into streets is prohibited.
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