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The long rolls of turf to the left of this house are about to become the green lawn of Hollister resident Kathy Provost’s dreams. But the grass is not the kind Provost thought she would cultivate on the family’s country property.

Hollister, San Juan, the county board and Sunnyslope water district are considering resolutions this week establishing new rules related to the state’s mandatory water cutback of at least 25 percent.

Panelists answered the following: Should farmers be spared from the state’s mandatory 25 percent cut in water use as ordered by the governor?

Anyone who waters more than twice a week, showers the sidewalk or uses a decorative fountain without recirculating the H2O are among residents who will be in violation of new restrictions once they are officially in place.