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Orange County Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance |
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**NEW** Archived Webinar on implementation of the Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance. Recorded March 10, 2010. Download here.
The Orange County Division is very proud to release the Orange County Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance to support Orange County city compliance with AB1881. The Division has worked very hard over the last several months, in partnership with Municipal Water District of Orange County, to manage an inclusive and broad based stakeholder process to develop an Orange County Model that is responsive to Orange County cities’ needs without unnecessary, overburdening, proscriptive regulation.
The Orange County Model is not only volumes shorter than the state model, but more importantly it is as effective in meeting the requirements of the law as the state model. In addition to saving your city costs in staff time and legal review to develop an ordinance to respond to AB 1881, the final OC Model Ordinance package minimizes the cost of implementation to the city, residents and builders. Given the feedback we have received on the final draft, we believe we have been very successful in capturing the elements that will make this ordinance the best choice for your city. It is our hope and request that your city will choose to adopt this model.
Cities are required to adopt a Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance no later than January 1, 2010. If you city does not adopt an ordinance by this date, the States Model Ordinance will become your default ordinance. Please View the resources below, and contact
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with questions. Please also see letters of support for this ordinance by the Orange County City Manager's Association, the OC BIA and the County Development Processing and Review Committee. |
