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Please Welcome: Clark Wilson USEPA--Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation Smart Growth Program
Green Infrastructure Involves an array of products, technologies, and practices that use natural systems or engineered systems that mimic natural processes to enhance overall environmental quality and provide utility services. Uses soils and vegetation to infiltrate, evapotranspirate, and/or reuse stormwater runoff. Can simultaneously help filter air pollutants, reduce energy demands, mitigate urban heat islands, and sequester carbon while also providing communities with aesthetic and natural resource benefits.
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Detailed design guidelines that. are tailored to the urban context of a street ensure design alternatives conform to AASHTO standards provide detailed case study examples with street cross sections
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Creates safer conditions for walking and bicycling Where its safe, get children walking and biking Where its not safe, make changes
Model Smart Growth Codes Model Smart Growth Codes and Regulations Work to Create Complete Neighborhoods and Corridors Incorporating:
Green Infrastructure Stormwater Boulevards 2-Lane Street Crossing over Habitat Corridors Short Blocks Proximity to Transit Corridors Walkability
Smart Growth and Emergency Response Opportunities for collaboration exist: Performance measures define the metrics of safety that includes the pedestrian Connectivity provides multiple routes to an emergency site Setback requirements buildings closer to street improves access for fire vehicles Construction techniques greater attention to design and detail in constructing multi-story and compact buildings
Working directly in three states The approach of incorporating green infrastructure into state stormwater permits was just released nationally Weve received numerous calls from other states who are interested and need additional information
EPA Technical Assistance Program City of Denver Living Streets Initiative Sussex County, Delaware Stormwater Design Guidebook Northern Kentucky Sanitation District #1 Green Infrastructure Tool Box
Polling Question #5 Who has used any of the resources produced by the EPA Smart Growth Division?
Incorporate ecological, community and mobility functions Support compact communities Promote least-polluting transportation performance Preserve environmental resources within and beyond the right of way
Casting a wide net Creating a project pool of case studies Documenting successes Synthesizing findings
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Project Locations
High Point Taylor 28 Route 527 Headwaters New Columbia Iowa Green Streets Octavia Blvd Leland Ave Luma Bird Rock / La Jolla Verano Blvd Cermak Blue Island Mobile Manor 12th St. West Main St. Riverfront Parkway
Michigan Avenue
Flatbush Ave.
Reconstructed public housing: Federal HOPE VI program Circulation system planned as part of total neighborhood BMPs for natural storm water drainage integrated into the public way
Top: High Point photo: Harrison Rue Bottom: New Columbia photo: Ellen Greenberg
New Columbia, Portland, OR Highly connected street grid (shown in dark brown) replaced street pattern connecting to larger community in four locations
High Point, Seattle Roads sized like surrounding older network Connectivity increased Bike network
Newly redeveloped, showcasing smart growth approaches Network and facility design planned as part of total neighborhood BMPs for natural storm water drainage integrated into the public way
Image: Harrison Rue
Image: Luma
Luma and Downtown Streets Streets transformed to provide an appealing setting for downtown redevelopment Buildings are LEED-Gold certified Dedicated ROW width devoted to public realm instead of travel lanes
Image: Luma
Creation of attractive, walkable streetscapes as part of the Citys combined sewer overflow (CSO) project Six downtown blocks included in initial project
Image: Tetratech
Image: Tetratech
12th Street, Kansas City MO Rain gardens and bulbouts installed in downtowns government district, calming traffic while greening the street
Taylor 28, Seattle In a downtown area planned for redevelopment Re-allocating ROW from travelway to public realm Under construction in 2009
Image: Mithun
Cermak / Blue Island Streetscape Chicago Improving an older industrial street sand railroad corridor Both streets: designated arterials and designated truck routes Introducing new sustainable techniques and streetscape elements FHWAs only Eco-logical grantee in urban area $14.5 million project
Re-Tooling Efforts
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Philadelphia, PA
Initiated by the PWD Philadelphia Water Department Greening Our Streets conference held October 2008
Challenges?
Challenges
Standards: irrelevant or worse Institutional cooperation and coordination Patchwork of funding sources Suitability of right of way Resistance to change
Cross departmental effort Work outside of regulations and standards Examples to emulate The right Participants
Executive Leadership City Leadership Civic Organizations Consultants Local Stakeholders State Government
Stormwater is not a mechanical system. It is an environmental process, joining the atmosphere, the soil, vegetation, land use, and streams, and sustaining landscapes. Bruce K. Ferguson