City of Redlands Municipal Utilities Drought Tolerant Plant Conversion

Requirements

• Apply and get approval before removing any lawn.
• Replant with low-water or native plants.
• Mulch the converted area.
• Cap every sprinkler and replace it with drip or micro-sprinkler irrigation.
• Book the pre-inspection before any work (909-798-7527 ext. 2) and bring the list of plants you'll use. Grass must be there for it: brown lawns qualify, yards that are mostly dirt and weeds do not.
• Plants must be low water use and listed on watersavinggardenfriendly.com. Cover the ground between plants with a weed barrier permeable to air and water, and put at least 2 inches of mulch at the base of every plant.
• In a residential front yard, at least 80% of the visible area must be plant material and no more than 20% rock, mulch, gravel or decomposed granite (Municipal Code 18.168.120).
• Or convert to irrigation-less groundcover at the same $1 per sq ft: permeable, needing no water, over a permeable weed barrier, with the irrigation capped or removed and any HOA approval first. Pavers must be spaced at least 1/4 inch apart; solid concrete does not qualify.
• All of a customer's Redlands rebates together, including sprinklers and controllers, stop at $1,000 a fiscal year.

Steps, in order

1. Apply on City of Redlands Municipal Utilities’s site and wait for approval. Lawn removed before approval usually does not qualify.
2. Remove the lawn and plant to the requirements above.
3. Send what the program page asks for once the work is done.