Mayor’s Getty House Gardens Going Drought Tolerant

WINDSOR SQUARE-The wide green parkway in front of 605 South Irving Bvd, the official residence of Mayor Garcetti and his family, is no more. Indeed, after announcing last week that city residents need to take this drought seriously and undertake some real water-saving practices, Garcetti has walked the walk, or should we say planted the plant, with the City replacing the front parkway median along Irving Blvd. with drought tolerant landscaping. The parkway along 6th Street remains grass and trees. 

One of the first in this section of Windsor Square, the new landscaping, which evidently did not require approval from the local HPOZ Board (Historic Preservation Overlay Zone), may be an incentive to other homeowners in Windsor Square where wide expanses of lush green lawn are the norm. Some sections of the surrounding community, such as Beachwood Drive north of Beverly, have a significant number of lawn-gone, drought-ready front yards looking lush.  (Read the rest here.) 

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CityWatch

Vol 12 Issue 88

Pub: Oct 31, 2014

 

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