Fresno County, CA Landscaping Rules: Water Restrictions (2026)

060 conditions issuance of a development permit on submitting a "landscape documentation package" to the county before any qualifying landscaping goes in the ground. 62), where ETO is the local reference evapotranspiration rate and LA is the landscaped area in square feet, and it must prove the estimated applied water use won't exceed that allowance. Required attachments include a landscape design plan grouping plants by water need into distinct hydrozones, an irrigation design plan built around automatic controllers and anti-drain valves, monthly irrigation schedules for the plant establishment period, and a maintenance schedule for keeping the system efficient.

The rule exempts owner-installed landscaping at single-family homes, cemeteries, registered historical sites, ecological restoration and mined-land reclamation projects that don't need permanent irrigation, and any project with less than twenty-five hundred square feet of landscaped area. whenever possible, to cut water lost to wind and daytime heat. A licensed landscape architect, contractor, or certified irrigation designer must certify substantial completion to the county, the retail water supplier, and the property owner before the project is considered finished.