Chandler, AZ Water Use Rules: Turf Replacement Rebates (2026)

Sec. 35-1906(6)(e), part of Chandler's landscaping standards for all covered new developments (Sec. 35-1906(2) excludes only individually built single-family, duplex, triplex and fourplex homes), sets a table limiting turf as a percent of total landscape area by land use: street rights-of-way get 0%, turf is prohibited there outright, with only landscaped extensions of residential lots excepted, commercial, office and institutional developments and industrial developments are capped at 10%, and multi-family residential developments and common open space/retention basins are capped at 40%. Single-family residential developments instead follow the Arizona Department of Water Resources' Phoenix Active Management Area Fifth Management Plan, which the code adopts by reference in Sec.

35-1906(7). Layered on top of the percentage table, Sec. 35-1906(3)(e) separately defines and bans "non-functional turfgrass" wherever it appears in multi-family or common-open-space areas: narrow strips ten feet or less in any dimension, grass on slopes steeper than 4:1 (25%), grass not reachable by a paved path, grass installed closer than ten feet to a street or a subdivision entryway without other recreational amenities, grass tied to drainage or retention functions, and any grass area that's purely ornamental rather than historically used for recreation.