Lawn Replacement

New Landscape Regulations Are Here!

The landscape ordinance:

• Permanently prohibits artificial turf as part of landscaping.
• Preserves native trees.
• Promotes native and drought tolerant plants and trees compliant with MWD rebate programs.
• Implement recommendations of the City's Urban Forestry Management Plan to maintain or increase the City's tree canopy on private property.

What Changed?

Single family residential properties are required to provide a minimum of 50% of the front yard area with live landscaping. Proposed requirements include 20% of the lot to be landscaped including 50% of any street facing yard area. Mature and heritage trees are to be preserved or replaced.

Commercial and industrial properties, outside of the SP-5 zone, require parking lot with 25 or more parking spaces to be landscaped and require 50% of front yard areas to be landscaped. Requirements for commercial and industrial properties SP-5 requirements of one tree for every 4 parking stalls in a parking lot, a 5 foot landscape buffer between a parking area and the street and 50% of street side setback areas to be landscaped. This is illustrated in the next image.

Landscape Resources

• San Fernando Front Yard Design Manual - Every Last Drop(PDF, 97MB): Custom, affordable front yard designs at your fingertips produced by Master of Landscape Architecture candidates at Cal Poly Pomona
• Urban Forestry Management Plan(PDF, 17MB)
• Parkway Design Guide(PDF, 1MB)

Tips

• Los Angeles County Handbook - The Drought Tolerant Garden
• Greengardens Group Events Page - GreenGardensGroup.com/g3-events
• BeWaterWise - Turf Rebate Program
• Tree Rebate Program
• Garden Resources
• Turf Replacement and Tree Planting Rebate Program

Contact Information

Community Development Department
(818) 898-1227 | CommunityDevelopment@sanfernando.gov
City Hall | 117 Macneil Street, San Fernando, CA 91340

New Planning Counter Hours

Monday through Wednesday | 8 am to 12 pm | Or by Appointment