Landscaping and Irrigation Strategies for Your Rental Community

Choosing the right landscaping features, and properly maintaining them, can enhance your rental community’s curb appeal, your residents’ enjoyment of their homes, and your property value.

This webinar will help you evaluate your current landscape and irrigation practices and also provide valuable makeover strategies that can reinvigorate your property while also saving water and money.

Topics Include:

• Selecting the right plant palette for your property.

• Drought tolerant landscaping — done right!

• Irrigation system improvements worth making.

Presenters:

• Drought update: Have the winter rains helped? Will irrigation restrictions be relaxed?

• Q&A

Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Time: 10 a.m.

Location: Zoom Webinar

Cost: $20 members

$45 non-members

Carr Regional Irrigation Manager, BrightView Landscape Services

Christian Galindo Vice President & General Manager BrightView Landscape Services

Lee Business Developer BrightView Landscape Services

could lead into the discussion of how fear of grid destruction results in statewide alerts, requesting residents to restrict power use during the hottest parts of the days during heat waves of 100+ degrees. This was the plea for all Californians to restrict if not use electricity for several hours.

In 13 years, residents will be prohibited from purchasing gas-powered vehicles in California and as the years race to the 2035 deadline, more and more Californians continue to trade in pollution producing pickups for soundless SUVs and trucks. And as the number of electric vehicles increases, so too does the demand for charging stations, powered by — electricity.

According to an article published by Bloomberg, Tesla began “rolling out” its Semi Truck in December — this truck has a 900-kilowatt battery pack and PepsiCo, Tesla’s first corporate customer, will be supplied with 100 of them in

2023. We digress. So, what happens to the proverbial “truck stop” if battery operated semis are shipping consumer products around the country? Well, nothing really. Is it plausible to think that gasoline diesel fuel will just transform into charging stations?

Interestingly, electric vehicle (EV) adoption is expected to accelerate nationwide due to market forces and federal policy changes, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. At the state level, including California and New York’s adoption of the Advanced Clean Cars II regulation, and the state of Massachusetts’ passage of “An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind,” will ban the sale of gas-only passenger vehicles by 2035.

National Grid and leading transportation analytics organizations CALSTART, RMI, Geotab, and Stable Auto, conducted the analysis to provide new insight into the future of EV highway charging in New York and

Massachusetts and to better understand the impact of this transition on the grid.

The study examined current traffic patterns and expected charger use to forecast charging demand at 71 highway sites across New York and Massachusetts. The analysis included relevant electric vehicle sales goals and mandates in National Grid’s home states — considering scenarios where all light-duty vehicle sales are electric by 2035 and all medium-and heavyduty vehicle sales are electric by 2045.

According to the findings, in 10 years more than a quarter of sites studied will require the same amount of power as an outdoor sports stadium to meet charging demand, with some requiring the same power as a small town within the next two decades.

Existing transmission lines, which often mirror highway routes, provide a ready-made solution if highway charging sites can “plug-in” to the high-voltage transmission grid. Strategically future-proofing high-traffic sites will allow states to accelerate cost-effective charging deployment.

National Grid alleges the Electric Highways Study can, “help utilities and policymakers make smarter decisions about electric grid interconnections and infrastructure, avoiding repeated upgrades and ensuring grid readiness does not hinder the clean energy transition.”

If this is true, then California’s policy makers ought to take heed of the warnings regarding future electrical demands before digging in their heals on electric vehicle exclusivity within the declared timeframe. California’s pocketbook is, seemingly, not big enough to purchase the tools necessary to produce enough renewably sourced energy; nor can it guarantee that Californian’s will have enough power on a cloudy day, or during a notorious heat wave, or after an earthquake, or during summer fire storm.

VREs cannot be the sole answer to a massive new and growing demand on power generation. Further, we are not improving and expanding our electrical grid fast enough. We do not have sufficient charging locations and charging technology. California has recently adopted a ban on natural gas fired housing (even though a recent study concludes that electrically heating a home can cost about 300% more than heating a home directly with natural gas). And for the moment, we are not required to install EV charging stations in residential rental property.

Ron Kingston is President of California Strategic Advisors and Legislative Advocate for the Apartment Association of Orange County. For questions regarding this article, please call AAOC at (714) 245-9500.

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