3-4 inches depth and angled so it drains to the storm drain will be more helpful for your new found desert friends than any plants. You probably can hand weed on occasion, but using locally quarried driver rock will help in keeping any places for seed to take hold out of the sun. If you can find some lake bed sand, it should be as effective as salting the ground without impacting runoff that much.
if you truly want to erase your carbon footprint print, you’re going to have to be comfortable with extreme degrowth methods such as deconstruction and anticonsumption, but that isn’t really forum appropriate.
Dude... there is not a person on the planet who thinks this a good campaign strategy to help Kamala. In fact I am sure if you asked Jack Smith I bet he would say it will help Trump. We all know how this works with Trump.