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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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Boulders
Raingarden Table
Decomposed granite path
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SONOMA NATURAL
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Raingarden Table
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SONOMA NATURAL
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Grape Kiwi Fence Trellis 5
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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”
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
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