Exterior Construction & CapEx in Scottsdale, AZ

Native plants and ESL in Scottsdale

In north Scottsdale, the saguaro was there first. Good projects plan around it.

Scottsdale's Native Plant Ordinance applies city-wide and protects large cacti and trees indigenous to the area. Any request affecting a listed plant needs a native plant program showing where each protected plant is and how it will be treated, and commercial projects submit it no earlier than Development Review Board approval. A permit is required to remove, relocate or destroy a protected plant, issued only with a development project. Plants stay in place where practical, and salvaged plants are replanted within the project.

North and east of the CAP canal, the Environmentally Sensitive Lands overlay guides development across 134 square miles of desert and mountain land. It requires each development to permanently set aside Natural Area Open Space, from 20% to 80% of a site depending on landform and slope before reductions, and its goal is to leave washes in natural condition where practical. In ESL communities, we confirm where open space and wash boundaries are before staging equipment or adding hardscape.

Many Scottsdale properties pair this with concrete demolition in Scottsdale and irrigation repair in Scottsdale, so one team handles the whole property.