To the editor: Some years in the past I organized efforts to plant bushes on road medians right here in Lengthy Seashore. Road bushes assist cool our neighborhoods, scale back noise and air pollution, and make our cities extra livable. (“California is transferring to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely ornamental,” Sept. 13)
Town employees informed me that I would wish to water the bushes as a result of they solely watered for the grass. I requested the town supervisor if this made any sense, and he admitted it didn’t.
The state is planning to ban watering these medians, which is able to seemingly stress the bushes and trigger many to die. It might be a lot better if the state supplied the assets for cities like Lengthy Seashore to interchange the grass with mulch and to transform the sprinklers to irrigation that extra successfully waters the roots of bushes.
Alan Coles, Lengthy Seashore
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To the editor: I’m all for water conservation however am leery of how this invoice can be applied in gentle of rising air temperatures.
Lowering inexperienced house will increase warmth in cities; this isn’t what we want. Go to the hard-scaped properties in Las Vegas and Palm Springs to really feel the radiating warmth, which makes these cities ghost cities a lot of the 12 months, with residents largely huddled inside refrigerated properties.
Will the state make sure that remaining or newly planted shrubbery and shade bushes are irrigated with non-potable water within the designated “nonfunctional turf” areas?
Felipe Hernandez, Glendale
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To the editor: Whereas the lack of “purely ornamental turf grass” could seem inconsequential, the lack of bushes that could be rising within the irrigated space is unquestionably not.
The lack of city bushes ensuing from a blanket software of the coverage would lower tree cowl, leading to intensification of the city warmth island impact. It should additionally scale back carbon seize and destroy wildlife habitat.
Frederick Roth, Rancho Cucamonga
