Can my Centennial HOA stop me from xeriscaping?

Not outright — C.R.S. 38-33.3-106.5 limits an HOA's ability to prohibit xeriscape or drought-tolerant landscaping. It can still require approval and reasonable design standards. A clear, scaled plan with a plant list is what gets approved quickly.

Who provides water in Centennial?

Several districts — Southgate, Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, East Cherry Creek Valley, and Willows Water District among them. Your water bill names yours, and its rules and programs are the ones that apply.

Can you reuse my existing sprinkler system?

Usually the valves, controller, and main lines, yes. The spray heads in converted areas get capped or swapped for drip. We test the system before quoting so you know what's reusable.

Arapahoe County

Xeriscape & Landscaping in Centennial, CO

HOA neighborhoods, sprinkler systems laid out for sod decades ago, and several water districts. We design to all of them.

Water provider: Southgate, ACWWA, East Cherry Creek Valley, Willows, and others

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Much of Centennial is established suburban neighborhoods — Willow Creek, Foxridge, and the streets around the South Suburban golf course among them — built with bluegrass lawns and a sprinkler system to match. A lot of those systems are original and were never designed for anything but turf.

Many Centennial neighborhoods also have an HOA. That shapes a project here more than soil or slope does: design review, submittal timing, and making the plan read as "maintained" to a board that's used to lawns.

Water in Centennial

Southgate, ACWWA, East Cherry Creek Valley, Willows, and others

Centennial is served by several water districts, not one. Southgate Water District (which gets its supply from Denver Water), Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation, and Willows Water District all serve parts of the city. Each sets its own watering rules and runs its own conservation programs, if any.

Your water bill tells you which one serves your address. Check that district's current restrictions and programs before you plan — and before you remove any grass, since programs that exist typically require approval first.

Rules and programs checked September 2026. They change — confirm with your provider before you plan.

Your HOA and Colorado law

Colorado law (C.R.S. 38-33.3-106.5) limits an HOA's ability to prohibit xeriscape or drought-tolerant landscaping on your lot. What the association can still do is require architectural approval and hold you to reasonable design guidelines.

In practice that means a clean, scaled plan with a named plant list, defined edges, and mulch or rock specified — the kind of submittal that gets approved on the first pass. We prepare the drawings and plant list; you submit to your board.

Retiring a legacy sprinkler system

Original spray systems in Centennial neighborhoods were laid out for sod: heads spaced for full coverage, one schedule for everything. Dropping natives under that system drowns them. The fix is converting zones to drip by plant need, capping heads that no longer serve anything, and keeping spray only where lawn remains. See drip irrigation.

Around Centennial

We work throughout Centennial, including Willow Creek, Foxridge, South Suburban golf course area, and Southglenn.

What Centennial yards usually need

Xeriscape Installation

HOA-ready conversions with a plan the board can approve.

Custom Design

Scaled drawings and plant lists for architectural review.

Drip Irrigation

Converting original sod-era spray systems zone by zone.

Sod Removal

Removal timed to your HOA approval.

Also in Centennial

Centennial questions

Can my Centennial HOA stop me from xeriscaping?: Not outright — C.R.S. 38-33.3-106.5 limits an HOA's ability to prohibit xeriscape or drought-tolerant landscaping. It can still require approval and reasonable design standards. A clear, scaled plan with a plant list is what gets approved quickly.
Who provides water in Centennial?: Several districts — Southgate, Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority, East Cherry Creek Valley, and Willows Water District among them. Your water bill names yours, and its rules and programs are the ones that apply.
Can you reuse my existing sprinkler system?: Usually the valves, controller, and main lines, yes. The spray heads in converted areas get capped or swapped for drip. We test the system before quoting so you know what's reusable.