Low Impact Development:

Project Update

Purpose: update PC on project

Get initial impressions on policy questions and stakeholder input
 Background:

2007 City qualified for technical assistance from PSP

Consultant reviewed code barriers and drafted new code
Relationship to other projects
PSP Status report in 2009 and 2010
 What is low impact development
(LID)?:

Anenvironmentally friendly way to treat stormwater

Cost savings?
LID Examples
LID Examples

 Traditional vs. LID

LID Cost?

  Conventional Low Impact

Grading/Roads $569,698 $426,575
Storm Drains $225,721 $132,558
SWM Pond/Fees $260,858 $ 10,530
Bioretention/Micro — $175,000
Total $1,086,277 $744,663
Unit Cost $14,679 $9,193
Lot Yield 74 81
 Existing Policy:

Local – policies encourage, not specific – nothing

mandatory.
Regional – focus of efforts is PSP – nothing mandatory
State – NPDES Phase II – nothing mandatory…yet
 New Policies:

Mandatory, voluntary or incentive-based?

Streets – narrow? Pervious paving?
Impervious areas? – restrict impervious in ALL zones?
PRDs? – more open space?
Parking? – LID landscaping, 30% pervious?
 New Policies
Continued:

Landscaping & screening – native vegetation areas? Native

plantings? Vegetation management?
Land clearing – More detailed grading requirements? Detailed
BMPs?
LID projects – flexible stds (lot dimensions and density) in
exchange for LID achievement.
 Next Steps:

Internal review.
Public involvement? Who? Developers? Residents?
Business owners?
Public hearings.
Adoption.