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# CITY HALL City offers landscaping assistance
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/city-hall-city-offers-landscaping-assistance/
- Published: 2008-01-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T17:53:46.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The City of Santa Monica offers landscape grants up to $20,000 to help property owners conserve water. The landscaping plan includes storm-water management systems, graywater systems and other modes of irrigation help. There have been up to $400,000 allocated to schools, businesses and apartments in the last three years. Applications for the grant program are available at www.smepd.org. For more information, call (866) 728- 3229\. Research shows that planting Santa Monica-friendly plants and converting traditional, high-volume sprinkler irrigation systems to water-efficient systems can save up to 80 percent of water use and three-fifths of time on maintenance costs. The landscape grant program is just one of 15 programs the city offers to save water and reduce ocean pollution.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 10, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011008.pdf?ref=smdp.com)