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§ 19.570.020 — Applicability

Riverside Municipal Code (Supp. No. 33: codified through Ordinance No. 7776, enacted June 23, 2026) · Riverside Municipal Code § 19.570.020

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19.570.020 - Applicability.

A. Consistent with the Governor's Executive Order No. B-29-15, and the State Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, this chapter shall apply to all of the following landscape projects: 1. New development projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than 500 square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check or design review. 2. Rehabilitated landscape projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than 2,500 square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check or design review. 3. Existing landscapes are limited to Section 19.570.080 - Existing Landscapes. 4. Recognizing the special landscape management needs of cemeteries, new and rehabilitated cemeteries are limited to Section 19.570.090 - Cemeteries (A). Existing cemeteries are limited to Section 19.570.090 - Cemeteries (B). 5. Notwithstanding Section 19.040.110 - Public Projects, all public projects shall comply with the provisions of this chapter. B. Any project with an aggregate landscape area of 2,500 square feet or less may comply with the performance requirements of this ordinance or conform to the prescriptive measures contained in Section 19.570.130 (State Model WELO Appendix D - Sample Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet). C. For projects using treated or untreated graywater or rainwater captured on site, any lot or parcel within the project that has less than 2,500 square feet of landscape and meets the lot or parcel's landscape water requirement (Estimated Total Water Use) entirely with treated or untreated graywater or through stored rainwater captured on site is subject only to Section 19.570.130.B.5 (Sample Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet - State Model WELO Appendix D). D. This chapter does not apply to: 1. Registered local, state or federal historical sites; 2. Ecological restoration projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system and have an establishment period of less than five years; 3. Mined-land reclamation projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system; and 4. Existing plant collections, as part of botanical gardens and arboretums open to the public.

(Ord. 7454, § 1(Exh. A), 2019)