Plan check a planting plan
From the file you already have to a submittal-ready plan check — usually under a minute.
- Reads the schedule
- places every plant on the property
- flags invasives & fire risk
- drafts your MWELO package
From the file you already have to a submittal-ready plan check — usually under a minute.
California’s Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance caps the water a new or renovated landscape may use. The cap is the Maximum Applied Water Allowance (MAWA), computed from the local reference evapotranspiration, the landscape area, and an ET adjustment factor; the design’s demand is the Estimated Total Water Use (ETWU), computed from each hydrozone’s area, plant factor, and irrigation efficiency. ETWU must not exceed MAWA. Lekua computes both from an uploaded planting plan and produces the Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet for the Landscape Documentation Package.
Upload the plan to Lekua’s plan check as a PDF, DXF, photo, CSV, or JSON. It reads the plant schedule, screens every species against the Cal-IPC invasive plant inventory and fire-risk lists, and flags each hit with California native substitutions suited to the site’s soil, sun, and defensible-space zone.
PDF, DWG, DXF, a photo of a printed sheet, CSV, or JSON. The plant schedule and project address are read automatically; you can correct anything it reads before the audit runs.
It is the MWELO submittal form that sets out the hydrozones, their plant factors and irrigation efficiencies, the Estimated Total Water Use, and the Maximum Applied Water Allowance — the sheet a plan checker compares against. Lekua generates it as a downloadable document from the audited plan.
Starting from a site rather than a finished plan? Analyze the address and the palette comes back already screened, or see what resolves in your county.