In Utah, local water districts have offered anywhere from $1 to $1.50 a square foot to replace grass with artificial turf — significantly less in incentives compared to southern Nevada’s $3 a foot.
• Patricia Council stood on her front yard and smiled, glad to see her lawn finally go.
“I don’t have anybody to help me much. So I just need to do as least maintenance as possible and make it look pretty,” Council said. “You know you’re not really walking on grass but it’s not that much difference. It’s soft and nice,” Council said of artificial turf. With the drought and increased calls for conservation, Nelson said business has been good. His company has expanded into Utah, where people are considering alternatives as state leaders continue to call for conservation in the drought.
“The problem with Utah is we’re one big family with separate sections,” he said of varying policies from city to city. “So in one area they may say, ‘Oh well the HOA has agreed to new turf.’ There’s another area around the corner there’s no turf whatsoever. So we’ve kinda got to get rid of this mindset and get into the new way of thinking,” he said.
Las Vegas has embraced things like artificial turf “because we’re in the middle of fall and we’re sweating,” Nelson added.
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