Placer County, CA Water Use Rules: Turf Replacement Rebates (2026)

010(1)(g) sets prescriptive compliance measures for any landscape project needing a permit, plan check or design review with an aggregate landscape area of 5,000 square feet or less. Within that prescriptive path, subsection (1)(g)(iv) caps turf at no more than 25% of the landscape area for residential projects, and prohibits turf outright in nonresidential landscapes. Turf also cannot be planted on slopes exceeding a one-foot vertical rise for every four feet of horizontal run, and it is prohibited in street parkways narrower than 10 feet unless the parkway sits next to a parking strip used for entering and exiting vehicles, in which case any parkway turf must run on subsurface irrigation or another method producing no overspray or runoff.

0, from street medians entirely. Compliance requires submitting a project information sheet identifying the total landscape area and the turf-to-plant breakdown, along with compost incorporated at a minimum of four cubic yards per 1,000 square feet, three inches of mulch on exposed soil, and an automatic irrigation controller using evapotranspiration or soil moisture sensor data. 010(2)(e).