In some areas, such transitions will be scarcer. In San Francisco, for example, there seems to be little room to improve. Nancy Hayden Crowley, press secretary for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, tells KneeDeep there is no turf in the city that will disappear with the first phase of implementation targeting government properties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have performed an assessment of the City\u2019s public properties and have not identified any that would fall under this requirement,\u201d Crowley says. \u201cGreen space around San Francisco\u2019s commercial, industrial, and institutional properties is also limited and generally provides community benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green space in the city tends to be in high demand for recreational use, she notes. Any such use would make the turf technically functional.<\/p>\n
Heather Cooley, chief research and program officer at the Pacific Institute, says such shifts in landscaping styles on private and public properties have contributed to long-term reductions in California\u2019s municipal water use, both per capita and on a gross basis \u2014 and even with the overall population rising. But outdoor landscaping, she says, still accounts for half of urban community water use in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is still more we\u2019ll need to do as droughts intensify and as water supply becomes even more variable and uncertain in the future,\u201d she says. Large areas of useless turf irrigated with potable water, she adds, are \u201cthe obvious place for us to make more progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In some areas, such transitions will be scarcer. In San Francisco, for example, there seems to be little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-470135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}