Attachment 2 - Appendix B Grounds Maintenance.pdf

This is an appendix map depicting grounds maintenance requirements for Homestead Air Reserve Base. The map provides a comprehensive site plan indicating various landscape and facility management zones across the base's operational area. Key maintenance zones include utility obstacle areas requiring 15-foot offset improved maintenance standards, crash gates controlled by contract security forces with access restrictions, and perimeter fencing requiring 15-foot vegetation maintenance on each side. The plan designates specific areas for canal maintenance with 15-foot offsets on each side, Linum arenícola sand flax protection areas prohibiting herbicide use, and Galactia smallii (Small's milkpea) endangered species areas also prohibiting herbicide application. Additional zones include bird aircraft strike hazard areas covering 469 acres with 7-14 inch mowing standards, wetlands and bird strike hazard areas spanning 230 acres, improved mowed areas totaling 343 acres maintained to 2-4 inch heights, and semi-improved mowed areas of 148 acres maintained to 4-10 inch heights. The map clearly delineates these maintenance standards and ecological protection requirements to guide contractor performance in managing the base's grounds in compliance with both operational and environmental regulations.