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1 Putting the Green in Complete Streets Integration of Green Infrastructure & Networks with Complete Streets Complete Streets: The Road to Safer, Healthier, Livable Communities Phil Erickson July 10, 2009 The Better Streets Plan is a cooperative planning effort of the following agencies

2 CD+A s Consultant Team Community Design + Architecture Lead Consultant & Urban Design Nelson Nygaard Transportation Planning Sherwood Design Engineers Civil & Environmental Engineering Jacobs Macdonald - Cityworks Street Design Auerbach Glasgow Lighting Design Eisen Letunic Best Practices Research Hydroconsult Engineers Hydrological Engineering Professor Joe McBride Urban Forestry Parisi Associates Transportation Engineering San Francisco Street Network

3 San Francisco Watershed Network CD+A Places29, Charlottesville, Virginia Street & Green Infrastructure Networks

4 Green Streets Great Streets Multi-modal Streets Complete Streets Context Sensitive Streets How about Better Streets What are Green Streets? Private Parcels: 57% of city land Parks: 18% of city land Streets: 25% of city land Why the Better Streets Plan?

5 Why the Better Streets Plan? Why the Better Streets Plan?

6 Need for Agency Coordination Why the Better Streets Plan? Need for - Standards for street design & maintenance Framework for implementation Citywide cookbook for use by all agencies Why the Better Streets Plan?

7 Overlapping Goals with Other City Processes Sustainability Policy Framework Precedent - Shotwell Greenway Neighborhood effort to re-landscape street Residential Neighborhood Street

8 Precedent - Shotwell Greenway Big Moves Residential Neighborhood Street Precedent - Shotwell Greenway Details Permeable Driveways Residential Neighborhood Street Planter Cut-outs

9 Residential Neighborhood Street 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 What is Green Infrastructure?

10 Smart Growth Principles Increased Density Transit and Pedestrian Accessibility Infill and Brownfield Development Bridging Institutional Barriers Green Infrastructure for Water Quality Non-mechanical treatment of storm water run-off Landscape for detention and retention Maximizing water reuse Source:ww.sanLorenzoPress.or g What is Green Infrastructure? Livability Goals for Green Design Improve Water Quality Use Land Efficiently Embrace Natural Processes Provide Cost Effective Solutions Create Unique and Attractive Neighborhoods What is Green Infrastructure?

11 Integrating Streets & Context with Natural Environment Source: City of Portland CD+A Metro Green Streets Handbook, Portland OR Region Green Streets Source: City of Portland Street Tree Wells Appropriate for urban streetscapes Use structural soils to provide subsurface planting trench Provide better environment for street trees Source: Landscape Architecture Green Streets

12 NE35th & Siskiyou Street Filter Strips Project, Portland, OR NE 36 th Avenue NE Siskiyou Street NE 35 th Place Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-filtration - Example Project NE35th & Siskiyou Street Filter Strips Project, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-filtration - Example Project

13 NE35th & Siskiyou Street Filter Strips Project, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-filtration - Example Project NE35th & Siskiyou Street Filter Strips Project, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-filtration - Example Project

14 NE35th & Siskiyou Street Filter Strips Project, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-filtration - Example Project Street Planters SW 12th St, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-retention - Example Project

15 Street Planters SW 12th St, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-retention - Example Project Street Planters SW 12th St, Portland, OR Designer: Kevin Perry, City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Bio-retention - Example Project

16 Finding Space for trees and Green Infrastructure Integrating Green Infrastructure Structural Soils Growth Comparison, Campbell, CA Urban Horticultural Institute, Cornell University Integrating Green Infrastructure Brooklyn, NY

17 Capture excess space in sidewalks and between the curbs for pocket parks Duboce Triangle Integrating Green Infrastructure Redesign of a Neighborhood Street

18 Redesign of a Neighborhood Street Redesign of a Neighborhood Street

19 Making a Greener Complete Street Making a Greener Complete Street

20 Making a Greener Complete Street Putting the Green in Complete Streets Integration of Green Infrastructure & Networks with Complete Streets Complete Streets: The Road to Safer, Healthier, Livable Communities Phil Erickson July 10, 2009

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