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Rebuilding Landscapes Permit Ready G arden D esign T emplates Project Goals Streamline permitting Save homeowner cost Water saving designs Fire Safer guidelines Attractive, engaging front yard plans Integrate sustainability

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Rebuilding Landscapes

Permit Ready Garden Design Templates

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Project Goals

  • Streamline permitting
  • Save homeowner cost
  • Water saving designs
  • Fire Safer guidelines
  • Attractive, engaging front yard plans
  • Integrate sustainability elements
  • Restore neighborhood vitality and ecology
  • Improve climate adaptability
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Landscapes that are Adaptive to Climate Change

Rising temperatures will generate warmer conditions in summer and winter Rainfall is likely to be more variable in extremes The North Bay region is becoming more arid

http:/ / climate.calcommons.org/ crnb/ home

Runoff may be increasingly flashy

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Neighborhood Historical and Ecological Context

  • Development period: style of neighborhood
  • Infrastructure elements
  • Drainage and Imperviousness
  • Urban Forest Characteristics:
  • percent tree cover
  • tree species and variability
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Russian River Friendly A whole systems approach to landscapes that supports the integrity

  • f one of California’s

richest and most diverse ecosystems: the Russian River watershed

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Planting Guidelines:

  • Low water plantings for 75% of area
  • Street Trees: Low water trees
  • Fire safer
  • Non invasive
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Fire Safer Guidelines

  • Plants < 3’ tall near house
  • Higher water use plants near house
  • Fire safer plant selection
  • Critical area - 30’ from house
  • Reduce connectivity of fuels
  • Islands of larger shrubs
  • Keep plants clean and green
  • Prune tree limbs 15’ from structures
  • Consider wind direction of fire weather
  • Non flammable fencing materials

Adapted from CalFire

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How Not to Plant for Fire Safer

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Separate shrubs, more lower groundcovers

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Sustainable Design

Direct Downspouts and Hardscapes to Raingardens & Swales - protect creeks, recharge groundwater Greywater - inexpensive year round water source Rainwater Harvesting - captures rainwater to infiltrate or use for irrigation Neighborhood Tree Cover - Urban Forest - keeps neighborhood cool, raises property values, reduces AC use and expense

See Daily Acts Fact Sheets

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Slow, spread, sink Rain into the earth

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Examples of Raingardens & Swales

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Greywater Laundry to Landscape

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Simple Modifications of Plumbing

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Greywater Shower to Flower

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Site Design Styles

Sonoma Contemporary: minimalistic, modern Sonoma Native/Adaptive: emphasis on native, fire safer, low water use, habitat Sonoma Cottage: Sonoma version of a cottage garden - natural materials, colorful plantings Sonoma Eco-Edible Style: mix of edible and habitat plantings, maximizing sustainability

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Site Considerations

  • Aspect – solar access for south solar power arrays,

shade trees to West

  • Slope: typical lots have modest slope back to front

(more sloping lots need site specific grading plan)

  • Lot size and shape: typical lot sizes configurations

housing shapes

  • Soil characteristics: assume clay loam topsoil

Moderate to low percolation rates

  • Urban Forest Characteristics - increase tree cover

mindful of fire safer and solar access

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1 RESIDENCE 2

LAWN

PLANTING CONCEPT LEGEND 1 2 3 4

Metal fencing to house

5 6 7 8

Boulders Raingarden Table Decomposed granite path Trellis

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SONOMA NATURAL

Scale 1/8”=1’-0”

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1 RESIDENCE 2 PLANTING CONCEPT LEGEND 1 2 3 4

Metal fencing to house

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Boulders Raingarden Table Decomposed granite path Trellis

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SONOMA NATURAL

Scale 1/8”=1’-0”

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1 RESIDENCE 2 PLANTING CONCEPT LEGEND 1 2 3 4

Metal fencing to house

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Boulders Raingarden Table Decomposed granite path Trellis

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SONOMA NATURAL

Scale 1/8”=1’-0”
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PLANTING CONCEPT 1 RESIDENCE 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8 1 1 1 4 3 2 7 6 1 5 8 8 LEGEND 1 2 3 4

Grape Kiwi Fence Trellis

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Fruit tree Gravelpave drive Raised garden bed Cutting fowers Trash area Mulch trench Rain garden vegetated

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ECO GROOVY

Scale 1/8”=1’-0”

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Landscape Permit Requirements

  • Landscape areas < 2500 sf
  • Smart irrigation controllers

with weather sensor

  • 75% low water use
  • 25% medium water use
  • Owner signs plan set
  • Drip irrigation systems and

components in plans

  • Owners self certify
  • Simplified inspection

Climatic water deficit = the amount of additional water that would have evaporated or transpired had it been present in the soils given the temperature forcing. Used as an estimate of drought stress on soils and plants (Cornwell 2010)

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Rebuild Design Template Team

  • Ann Baker Landscape Architecture
  • Daily Acts
  • Equinox Landscapes
  • ForeS

ite Mapping

  • Proj ect Advisory Committee:

– City of Santa Rosa (WUE, Permitting,

Stormwater and Fire), County PRMD, SCWA