Urban Street Stormwater Guide

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Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is steadily underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess impervious surface contributes to stormwater runoff, posing a threat to the environment and human health, and steadily overwhelming sewer systems. This excess asphalt also poses a threat to public safety, encouraging faster speeds and dangerous conditions for people walking and biking. 

The Urban Street Stormwater Guide begins from the principle that street design can toughen—or degrade—the urban area’s overall environmental health. By incorporating Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) into the right-of-way, cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm. With thoughtful design, GSI can bolster strategies to provide a protected and pleasant walking and biking experience, efficient and reliable transit service, and safer streets for all users.

Building on the successful NACTO urban street guides, the Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides the most productive practices for the design of GSI along transportation corridors. The authors believe context-sensitive design elements related to street design, character and use, zoning, posted speed, traffic volumes, and impacts to non-motorized and vehicular get entry to. The Guide documents and synthesizes current practices being developed by individual agencies and recommends design guidance for implementation, in addition to explores innovative new strategies being tested in cities nationwide. The guidance will focal point on providing protected, functioning and maintainable infrastructure that meets the unique needs and requirements of the transportation corridors and its quite a lot of uses and users.

The cutting-edge solutions in this guide will assist urban planners and designers, transportation engineers, city officials, ecologists, public works officials, and others interested in the role of the built urban landscape in protecting the climate, water quality, and natural environment.

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