Nevada City Updates Its Water Efficiency Standards
Nevada City Updates Its Water Efficiency Standards
Nevada City has finally adopted new water efficiency standards for landscapes, aligning local development with state requirements to boost conservation and wildfire safety.
A long-deferred update to better align water efficiency standards with the state’s was also approved by the Nevada City City Council at last week’s meeting. A staff memo says to promote the more efficient use of water in landscape, design, installation, and maintenance for new development projects and rehabilitated landscapes the state requires local agencies to adopt ordinances that are at least as effective as conserving water as its model. City Planner Jessica Hankins told the Council the city was supposed to have adopted the update in 1993…
City staff says large water savings can be gained by choosing climate-adapted plants, improving soil conditions, using hydrozoned planting arrangements, maintaining high-efficiency irrigation equipment, and managing the irrigation schedule to fit the plants’ water needs, as they are influenced by climate change. Councilmember Micayla Sortland indicated the update fits into her own environmental and recycling goals…
Hankins said the ordinance also requires landscape plans to comply with applicable wildfire prevention, defensible space, vegetation management, and fire safety requirements.
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