Grass Removal & Xeriscape Conversion in Mesa, AZ

How Mesa's grass-to-xeriscape incentive works

Mesa will pay you to stop mowing. We'll help you collect.

Commercial properties, HOAs, apartment communities, churches and schools can qualify if they're Mesa water customers irrigating common areas with potable water, and the applicant has to be the property owner. The minimum is 2,500 square feet of grass removed, and the grass has to be healthy: routinely watered and maintained, with about 70% average coverage. City staff inspect first, and no grass can come out until Mesa issues a notice to proceed.

The new landscape has to use plants from ADWR's low-water-use list that reach at least 50% canopy coverage at maturity, with at least two inches of mulch. Artificial turf or rock alone doesn't count. Once you're approved, the work has to be finished within 180 days. Boards will need a resolution or minutes authorizing the application, and a W-9 for payment.

Pair the conversion with Mesa's irrigation equipment incentives, which can cover half the wholesale cost of a smart controller, and you cut both the grass and the water waste on the system that's left.

Many Mesa properties pair this with irrigation repair in Mesa and tree trimming in Mesa, so one team handles the whole property.