Turf and putting greens in Range View Estates.

Section 3.12.1 of the recorded declaration lists what the plan must depict: fences, decks, sod, seeded areas, artificial turf, retaining walls, rock, timbers, the sprinkler system and the size and species of every nursery plant, plus a drainage and grading plan that matches the builder’s. Plans “must be submitted and approved PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF LANDSCAPING” and “must be prepared by a professional landscape designer/contractor,” with a review fee and compliance deposit paid at submission.

Section 2.3.1 reaches past the first install. Nothing may be placed, altered, planted or installed without written approval of complete plans, and the declaration’s list of improvements takes in sod, gravel, patios, fences, play structures and exterior light fixtures. A putting green, a turf dog run or a later swap from sod to synthetic reads as an improvement the committee signs off on.

The declaration lets the district’s board adopt an Architectural Control Handbook with Design Guidelines, but the district’s Community Resources page listed none on September 26, 2026; it posts the design application and forms instead. Ask the district for any current guidelines before the plan is drawn.

Section 7.2 bars potable water for outside irrigation and allows no outside hose bibs on the house except for car washing or winter watering the district approves; hose bibs are allowed off the non-potable system. Section 7.6 gives each lot 0.54 acre-feet, about 175,500 gallons, a year, and every lawn needs an automatic system the committee approves with the landscape plan, professionally designed and installed, with no overspray onto a neighbor’s lot.

The district’s 2026 schedule sets the seasonal allocation at 175,000 gallons, closes a lot’s valve once it is spent, and gives each lot two 2-hour windows a week by the last digit of its lot number. The system shuts down the first Wednesday of October.

Synthetic turf and a putting green take none of that allocation, which leaves the gallons for the trees, shrubs and beds the plan still has to carry.

The district’s May 27, 2026 update said the non-potable storage pond remained empty with no sign of meaningful inflow, so water was being pushed through the system from a 2-inch potable tap. Irrigation that season was authorized for lots with pre-existing landscaping; the update listed eight properties approved to water, each still held to 175,000 gallons.

The water rules had planned for a short year. Their March 22, 2024 amendment caps each lot at 12 gallons a minute, limits lots in low-water periods to two nights a week in 2-hour windows, and asks owners to spend that water only on high-value areas such as gardens and trees.

For a lot still waiting on its first landscape, putting the play lawn and the green in synthetic turf keeps the irrigated area to the planting the district’s own rules put first. The committee approves the mix either way.

Section 2.5 gives the Architectural Review Committee 45 calendar days after a complete submission: “Failure to approve within forty-five (45) calendar days shall be deemed disapproval.” An owner may appeal an adverse committee decision to the full board within 10 calendar days. The district’s fee schedule of May 20, 2024 charges $250 to review a new, changed or added landscape and $100 for each review after that, while its Design Control Submittal form lists $200 for a modification or later review.

The finish dates don’t line up either. The declaration allows one year from approval, after which the compliance deposit is forfeited, while the design application says approved work must be done within 90 days. For a new home, Section 3.12 wants landscaping in within 180 days if construction ends between April 1 and October 1, or by the next October 1, and the district’s status letter says 90 days from closing. It depends on which document the committee applies to your lot, so ask the ARC to put the completion date in writing with the approval.

The declaration covers Lots 1 through 55 on 107.064 acres, more or less, and the developer’s February 2024 lot list runs from 1.024 to 1.644 acres a lot. That is room for a putting green, a turf play area and planting beds on one lot, laid out around grading the declaration holds in place.

Section 3.13.1 has owners keep the slope and pitch set by final grading and take any change to the established drainage to the committee as a plan. The design application adds site rules of its own: keep drainage swales and the side and back lot easements working, leave a 2-to-4-inch gap between fence panels and the ground, keep landscape material off the district fence, and don’t take down district fencing or drive across landscaping to get into the yard. Trees go at least 5 feet from property lines and shrubs 3 feet.

Lighting a green for evening play means Dark Sky lighting, which the application requires for all landscape lights, and Section 3.8 bars light that is unreasonably bright or throws unreasonable glare.