In 1997 I lived in Las Vegas and wrote a letter to the editor stating I used to live in Tucson, where everything is xeriscaped because they live in the desert. Grass lawns were very few and far between.
Maybe the city planners listened, I don’t know, but you go to Vegas now and don’t see many lawns and all government properties are xeriscaped.
I moved to Salt Lake City in 2007. I see grass everywhere. I write another letter to the editor making the same points as the 1997 letter to the editor. Nobody listened this time.
So, I wrote another letter to the editor in 2018, stating, you fools need to xeriscape and start with government properties and make incentives for homeowners to do the same. Nobody heeded my advice.
Now we have a serious problem with water (or lack thereof). I prophesize we will run out of water if you don’t do anything.
This prophet gives you a solution: (1) all new homes/building have to, by law, be 80% xeriscaped to get a license to build; (2) use the tax excess to incentivize the public to also xeriscape; (3) henceforth, all government properties have to be 90% xeriscaped.
David T. Lancaster, Murray
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