The ordinance was inspired by a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission, and the cities website previously voiced concern for protecting nearby aquifers as cause to conserve water, which is among the benefits native landscaping can provide communities.

Landscape maintenance contractors could benefit from the legislation and similar examples elsewhere if they posses locally rare knowledge of native landscaping, or suffer if on the other end of the same equation.

However, either group might suffer if locally native plants required fewer maintenance hours than replaced non-natives in an area with limited prospective clients. On the other side of the coin, the same reality could mean additional time for more clients, provided the extra customers are there to be had.

Either way, the question of whether to require native plantings by legislation is worth landscape contractors?EUR??,,????'?????<