Landscaping-Xeriscape Rules and Designs

How to submit an exterior change request to the Architectural Review Committee:

Create detailed plans to include dimensions, elevations, materials, photos, samples, etc. These can be drawings.
Complete the Province Center Architectural Form. Submit your completed plans and form on the online resident portal or email your completed plans and form to anna@teleos-services.com or mail to: Teleos Management Group 6833 S. Dayton St. #163 Greenwood Village, CO 80112
Completed ARC Requests get distributed every Friday. The ARC may take up to 45 days to review your request. Once the committee has provided a response, a response letter will be emailed to you and will also be available by logging into your account.

All ARC requests that are received will be included in the following week’s Friday submittals to the review committee.

Landscaping

ARC approval is required. The Architectural Review Committee encourages the use of drought-tolerant plant materials for new installations or existing landscape changes, referred to as xeriscaping. As an alternative to traditional landscaping, xeriscaping is water conservation planning through creative landscaping. Please remember that xeriscaping requires as much or more maintenance as traditional landscaping through at least the first three (3) years. Included with these Community-wide Standards is a recommended plant list that you can utilize in your xeriscape plan. All xeriscape plans must incorporate the installation of a properly functioning irrigation system to help maintain the plantings. If homeowners desire to limit the amount of sod/turf in their front, side or rear yards, no greater than seventy percent (70%) of either the front, side or back yards can be covered with non-living materials, unless you are utilizing artificial turf. The transition from traditional landscaped areas to either xeriscape or artificial turf must be taken into consideration with the plan, including lot boundaries of neighboring yards.

The most attractive xeriscapes, that do not incorporate artificial turf, will have a minimum seventy-five percent (75%) or more of non-living material areas covered with plants, typically shrubs and groundcover beds, after three years’ growth. When utilizing artificial turf in your design plan, look at creating interest in the design, but outlining smaller areas of the yard with the artificial turf and incorporating bedded living plant material around the site.

Landscaping Trees: Front yards should, if space allows, have at least one tree or evergreen of the appropriate size and/or height as outlined under Landscaping Tree Specification. Deciduous trees planted in rear yards must be at least 5' from the property line. Conifer trees planted in rear yards must be at least 10' from the property line. Requests for trees to be planted closer to property lines will require written and signed approval from the adjacent homeowners and all plans must be submitted to ARC for approval.

For a complete suggested plant list, please refer to the Community Wide Standards.