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Old 03-01-2012, 08:01 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Mine has a tree so I am pulling out the grass and replacing with mulch. Others in my neighborhood and replaced sod with succulant plants and decomposed granite. Lantana will fill almost any space!
This is starting to happen here in my 'burb. I'm on the ACC committee and we just approved someone who is replacing that streetside strip of grass with granite and heat tolerant plants. We've also been doing that with our front yard, slowly replacing the grass with various beds and drought tolerant plants. We've left our oak trees up though because of the shade
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Old 04-30-2013, 10:57 AM
 
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How do I deal with my association that keeps fining me when I don't water my grass? My grass is struggling but it not totally dead.
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Old 04-30-2013, 12:34 PM
 
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If SB 198 passes (and it is well along the process, through the Senate, through the House committee and waiting on a floor vote) you'll be able to install xeriscaping regardless of what your HOA covenent says.
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Old 04-30-2013, 02:56 PM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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If SB 198 passes (and it is well along the process, through the Senate, through the House committee and waiting on a floor vote) you'll be able to install xeriscaping regardless of what your HOA covenent says.
Depends on what you mean by "xeriscaping". From the bill:

(d) This section does not:
(4) prohibit a property owners' association from
regulating the installation or use of gravel, rocks, or cacti;

Installing buffalo grass? Yes. Removing your turf and replacing it with decomposed granite and flagstone? Probably not, w/o a change in the covenants.
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Old 04-30-2013, 03:08 PM
 
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I wonder when HOA's will lose the power to have a subjective power over landscaping in subjective ways.

Having all this non-native grass is like growing rice in Texas. makes me go huh?
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Old 04-30-2013, 03:28 PM
 
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Depends on what you mean by "xeriscaping". From the bill:

(d) This section does not:
(4) prohibit a property owners' association from
regulating the installation or use of gravel, rocks, or cacti;

Installing buffalo grass? Yes. Removing your turf and replacing it with decomposed granite and flagstone? Probably not, w/o a change in the covenants.
Fortunately, many HOA's are allowing these. I know mine has been approving them left and right - particularly on the "nuisance strip" between side walk and curb. Definitely going to be one of my summer projects - as soon as I can figure out what I want it to look like.
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Old 04-30-2013, 03:30 PM
 
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I wonder when HOA's will lose the power to have a subjective power over landscaping in subjective ways.

Having all this non-native grass is like growing rice in Texas. makes me go huh?
And TX is the 4th largest producer of rice in the nation!

The easiest way to turn the power of an HOA around when it comes to totally subjective things like landscaping - get on the committee that approves this stuff and change it from within.
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Old 04-30-2013, 03:41 PM
 
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Austin should just raise the price of water and people can decide for themselves how important a green lush lawn in the middle of a drought is to them.
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Old 04-30-2013, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Some of my neighbors have been tearing out grass and putting in gravel. The few that put in enough plants to cover it, it looks great. Some just have wide swaths of rock, which I think looks terrible. I'd rather look at brown grass than brown gravel. Sure we have water shortages but it's not like we live in Phoenix.
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Old 04-30-2013, 07:02 PM
 
Location: The People's Republic of Austin
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Austin should just raise the price of water and people can decide for themselves how important a green lush lawn in the middle of a drought is to them.
You are exactly right! This is immoral. There is no place in Austin for such warped values.
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