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Landscape professionals and builders back 'healthy soils' standards for construction and new plantings
Summary
Experts from landscape and development sectors supported H125/H142/S65, urging minimum topsoil standards and clearer turf definitions to ensure post‑construction soil quality and reduce long‑term maintenance burdens and environmental harm.
Landscape professionals and municipal planners who work directly with post‑construction sites testified in favor of H125/H142/S65, an act establishing healthy soil performance guidelines, urging that construction practices preserve and restore topsoil to protect plant establishment, water retention and long‑term landscape health.
Bob Mann, senior director of technical and regulatory affairs for the National Association of Landscape…
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