Cedar Hills, Utah
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New construction landscaping for Cedar Hills homes, from bare dirt to a finished yard inside the city's 12 month deadline, with the lawn rules and permits handled.
“They installed our backyard in a new construction home we bought this summer, and they helped us get exactly what we wanted within our budget.”
“We would absolutely hire this team again and recommend them to anyone looking for landscaping help.”
New-Construction Landscaping in Cedar Hills
New homes are still going in around Cedar Hills, including new plats and townhomes in The Cedars. Once your home passes final inspection, the city gives you 12 months to get the front yard landscaped. Miss it, and the city can enforce with citations and fines. Your HOA, if you have one, may set its own date on top of the city's, so it pays to know both on move-in day.
The rules for a new front and side yard are clear. When a contractor installs it, lawn can cover no more than 35 percent of the landscaped area, has to be at least 8 feet wide and stays out of park strips and off slopes over 25 percent. Xeriscape beds need drip. Rock, boulders and localscapes count toward the yard, and pavers are allowed in landscaping strips.
The dirt the builder left is the other half. A new lot on the bench is often a mix of cut and fill from the foundation dig, packed hard by trucks. We loosen it, bring in topsoil where lawn and beds go, set grades away from the house and tie the sprinklers into the city's metered secondary water. If the lot sits in the H-1 Hillside zone, grading needs the city engineer's permit first.
Cedar Hills calls itself Utah's mile-high city, a family town on the bench at the mouth of American Fork Canyon where even a short retaining wall needs a permit, the secondary water is metered, and hillside lots in The Cedars and Canyon Heights follow their own grading rules.
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The Cedar Hills challenges
Move in, then winter, then a busy spring, and the deadline is suddenly close. Secondary water only runs from about mid-April to mid-October, so a fall closing leaves less time than it seems. Booking the design over the winter keeps the build ready for spring.
Builder sketches and neighbor ideas often show grass edge to edge. On a contractor-installed front and side yard here, that plan fails the 35 percent cap and the 8 foot width rule. We draw it to code from the start so it passes when the city looks.
Trucks and equipment pack a new lot like a road. Sod on top roots shallow and dies back in the first hot summer. Ripping the ground and adding screened topsoil costs less than replacing the whole lawn a year later.
Homes in The Cedars and Canyon Heights are built in the H-1 Hillside zone. Slopes of 30 percent or more stay natural, natural vegetation stays except where the home and yard go, and grading needs a city engineer's permit. A plan that ignores that can stall the whole job.
The J&H approach
We start from your final inspection date and work backward. If time is tight, the front yard gets built first, with sleeves and lines run for the back, so finishing later does not mean digging up the front.
We rip compacted soil, haul in screened topsoil and shape grades so water leaves the foundation. Under any patio or walk, road base goes down in compacted layers. The yard starts on good ground instead of builder fill.
We draw the site plan for any wall, fence, patio or pergola, get HOA approval where needed and file the installation permits. The sprinklers tie into the city's secondary water with lawn, beds and drip on their own zones.
What homeowners say
"We had a really big project (full lot project) and a crazy timeline, and Jackson and his team were awesome. They are very efficient, work hard to get things done quick, and the quality of their work is top-notch. Great company. Great guys. I would highly recommend them for any landscaping needs."
"Jackson and his crew did a phenomenal job on our back yard. I had a vision and they brought it to life. We had them do a retaining wall, grading, underground trampoline, sprinkler system, and sod. They met deadlines, communication was on point, and the whole crew was friendly.…"
"…The job was completed quickly without sacrificing quality, and the results exceeded our expectations. We would absolutely hire this team again and recommend them to anyone looking for landscaping help."
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