Santa Rosa, CA Water Use Rules: Turf Replacement Rebates (2026)

040(B)(2)(f), the landscape design plan submitted for any covered project may not place turf in slopes exceeding 10 percent, planting areas eight feet wide or less, or street medians, traffic islands, planter strips or bulbouts of any size. The same subsection separately bars invasive plants from the California Invasive Plant Council list. The chapter, adopted by Ordinance No. 3925 in 2010 and amended by Ordinance No. 4051 in 2015, applies to commercial, industrial, institutional, park and greenbelt, and both multi-family and single-family residential landscaping wherever a building or grading permit, plan check, design review or utilities certificate is required for new or rehabilitated landscaping.

060: the landscape design plan and soil report at final design review, the irrigation design plan at building permit/plan check, and a certificate of completion with an irrigation audit once installation is finished. A final field inspection by City staff is required before building permit final approval, and occupancy cannot proceed until that landscape inspection is signed off. 050 where that better addresses the project. 020(B).