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THE CITY OF 6 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT pLEASANTONa November 17, 2015 Engineering Department TITLE: APPROVE A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE STATE'S 2015 MODEL WATER EFFICIENT LANDSCAPE ORDINANCE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COUNCIL'S PREVIOUS ADOPTION OF THE BAY FRIENDLY BASICS LANDSCAPE GUIDELINES SUMMARY In response to the Governor's Executive Order No. B-29-15 issued on April 1, 2015, the State legislature recently updated the State Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO)to require local agencies to report on the adoption of updates to their landscape ordinance by December 31, 2015. If the adopted ordinance is a modification of the updated MWELO, it must be at least as water efficient as the updated MWELO. The City currently complies with the adopted 2009 State MWELO. In addition to MWELO, the City follows nine other landscaping and environmental principles referred to as "Bay Friendly Basics" (BFB), which were developed by the Source Reduction and Recycling Board and the Alameda County Waste Management Authority, operating collectively as Stopwaste.org, and adopted by City Council in June of 2012. Significant revisions made to the 2015 MWELO include landscape size threshold applicability, annual reporting requirements to the Department of Water Resources, incentives for graywater usage, increased irrigation system efficiency, limitations on the proportion of high water use plants in the landscape, and the addition of a streamlined MWELO process for specific types of applicants. RECOMMENDATION Staff recommends that the City Council approve the resolution to adopt the 2015 Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance in conjunction with the previously Council-approved BFB landscape requirements (both will be collectively referred to as the City of Pleasanton Landscape Ordinance upon adoption). These 2015 MWELO modifications are as water efficient (and in some cases, more efficient) than the State's 2015 MWELO alone, and are therefore acceptable by Department of Water Resources (DWR) standards. FINANCIAL STATEMENT No direct financial impacts will result from adoption of the attached resolution.