Rebuilding

Landscapes

Permit Ready Garden Design Templates

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

Landscapes that are Adaptive toClimate Change

Rising temperatures will generate warmer conditions in summer and winter

Rainfall is likely to be more variable in extremesThe North Bay region is becoming more arid

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

Runoff may be increasingly flashy

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

 

Russian River Friendly A whole systemsapproach to landscapesthat supports the integrity of one of California’s richest and most diverse ecosystems: the Russian River watershed

Planting Guidelines: • Low water plantings for 75% of area • Street Trees: Low water trees

• Fire safer

• Non invasive

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

How Not to Plant for Fire Safer

Separate shrubs, more lower groundcovers

Sustainable DesignDirect 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

Slow, spread, sink Rain into the earth

Examples of Raingardens & Swales

Greywater Laundry to Landscape

Simple Modifications of Plumbing

Greywater Shower to Flower

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

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 topsoilModerate to low percolation rates

• Urban Forest Characteristics - increase tree cover mindful of fire safer and solar access

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Gravelpave drive Raised garden bed

Cutting fowers Trash area

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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)

Rebuild Design Template Team

• Ann Baker Landscape Architecture• Daily Acts• Equinox Landscapes• ForeSite Mapping

• Project Advisory Committee:– City of Santa Rosa (WUE, Permitting,

Stormwater and Fire), County PRMD, SCWA