Changing that to 40percentt of the turf area at installation must be planted, not at maturity would be a much better requirement.
Currently all three states permit the installation of artificial turf, and a federal commission endorses it.
Sacramento and Glendale have long banned the installation of artificial turf in front lawns, as have some homeowner associations, which view the product as tacky.
Cities and counties are prohibited from enforcing rules that ban the installation of artificial turf or drought-tolerant landscaping on residential properties.
Why, he wondered, did the city-backed garage plan include a provision -- negotiated by Sarnoff and other city officials -- for a $200,000 gift from the developer for installation of artificial turf on an athletic field six blocks away?
CITY HALL — Parents from Glendale Adventist Academy on Wednesday rallied for the installation of artificial turf on the school's playground, pointing out instances when several children fell on the asphalt and suffered cuts, bruises and broken bones.
For now, New York State Assembly-members Steve Englebright, William Colton, and David Koon have proposed legislation to impose a six-month moratorium on the installation of synthetic turf until the state health and conservation departments have better studied the pros and cons of natural and synthetic grass.
Most important, however, data from Kranji Racetrack in Singapore indicate a decrease in catastrophic injuries after installation of the natural turf system and boasted not a single race-day catastrophic breakdown in the last seven months of 2004.
It included the installation of an artificial turf field and an all-weather track.
Following the installation of the floodlights, Turf Moor did not undergo any further changes until the mid-1990s.
