The City of Santa Monica's Watershed Management Program requires postconstruction Best Management Practices (BMPs) for all construction projects, both new development and redevelopment (retrofits), to reduce the amount of stormwater runoff and to improve runoff quality entering the Santa Monica Bay. While the city's watershed management program continues to promote Low Impact Development strategies for individual parcel projects, the transportation grid is a harder area to incorporate BMPs. Transportation infrastructure involves other complexities of development, such as underground utilities, changes in drainage grades, parkways, traffic flow and safety vehicle and pedestrian movement. To demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating the green transportation infrastructure with a BMP strategy in an ultra urban, built-out setting, the city obtained a state grant to retrofit a city residential street into a green street, the Bicknell Avenue Green Street Project. This Project demonstrates how an urban street can be retrofitted with a combination of BMPs. The result is an aesthetical, attractive, and more sustainable, vis-à-vis natural resources, street that can harvest up to 80% of wet weather flows.
LID in Retrofitting an Ultra-Urban Transportation Infrastructure
Low Impact Development International Conference (LID) 2010 ; 2010 ; San Francisco, California, United States
Low Impact Development 2010 ; 1450-1460
06.04.2010
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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