June 01, 2010
City of Tucson, AZ,
June 01, 2010
Harvesting rainwater is a useful strategy for providing supplemental irrigation water to commercial landscapes, making more efficient use of the desert’s most limited resource – water. The City of Tucson Mayor and Council adopted the Commercial Rainwater Harvesting Ordinance on October 14, 2008 to increase the use of harvested rainwater at commercial sites in Tucson and to decrease use of potable and reclaimed water supplies. The ordinance takes effect June 1, 2010.
Keywords: water harvesting; commercial; development standard; ordinance; regulation; design guidelines; cisterns; tanks