Buena Park, CA Landscaping Rules: Rainwater Harvesting (2026)
Key Facts
- Qualifying threshold
- Under 2,500 sq ft landscape area
- Requirement
- 100% of water need via graywater/rainwater
- Benefit
- Appendix A prescriptive path only
- Citation
- BPMC § 13.30.020(A)(4)
- Chapter
- Ch. 13.30, Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance
Summary
Landscape projects in Buena Park that meet a lot's entire water need through on-site graywater or rainwater capture qualify for simplified compliance under the city's Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance.
New or rehabilitated projects using treated or untreated graywater or rainwater capture on site, any lot or parcel within the project that has less than two thousand five hundred square feet of landscape area and meets the lot or parcel's landscape water requirement (estimated total water use) entirely with the treated or untreated graywater or through stored rainwater capture on site is subject only to Appendix A of the Guidelines.
Full Breakdown
Buena Park Municipal Code § 13.30.020(A)(4), part of the city's Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (Chapter 13.30, implementing the state's model ordinance under Gov. Code § 65595 et seq.), gives a compliance shortcut to new or rehabilitated landscape projects using treated or untreated graywater or on-site rainwater capture: any lot or parcel with less than 2,500 square feet of landscape area that meets its entire estimated landscape water requirement through graywater or stored rainwater capture is subject only to the prescriptive measures in Appendix A of the city's Guidelines, rather than the full water-budget calculation otherwise required.
Violations & Fines
Landscape plans that don't qualify for or satisfy the graywater/rainwater pathway must instead meet the ordinance's full water-budget calculation and documentation package before the city approves the required building or landscape permit.
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