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Attachment 2 %~ <br />construction. It also provides and protects more open, undeveloped land that <br />would exist otherwise to absorb and filter rain water, reduce flooding and <br />stormwater drainage needs, and lower the amount of pollution washing into <br />our streams, rivers and lakes. <br />Compact building design is necessary to support wider transportation <br />choices, and provides cost savings for localities. Communities seeking to <br />encourage transit use to reduce air pollution and congestion recognize that <br />minimum levels of density are required to make public transit networks viable, <br />Suggestion: <br />• Build multi-story buildings in future phases, <br />15. Low Impact Design (Erosion and Sediment Control) <br />Low impact development (LID) achieves stormwater management controls by <br />fundamentally changing conventional site design to create an environmentally <br />functional landscape that mimics natural watershed hydrologic functions,. The <br />LID design approach is to leave as much undisturbed area as practical and <br />optimize infiltration, detention and interception to reduce runoff volume and <br />discharge, LID management controls are integrated throughout the site to <br />compensate for the hydrologic alterations of development. The approach of <br />conserving and utilizing areas with high infiltration and low runoff potential in <br />combination with small on lot stormwater retention !detention facilities <br />creates a "hydrologically functional landscape". This functional landscape can <br />also enhance a site's aesthetic and habitat value by encouraging greater <br />conservation of trees and use of more plant landscape materials. (Coffman, <br />Larry S., Michael L. Clar, Neil Weinstein) <br />Suggestions: <br />• Location of BMP's on high-infiltration soils <br />• Maintain predevelopment flow path length by dispersing and redirecting <br />flows using open swales and natural or vegetated drainage patterns <br />instead of curb and gutter <br />• Disconnecting impervious areas (e.g., eliminating curb/gutter and <br />redirecting down spouts) <br />C:\Documents and Settings\Administmmr\Locnl Settings\Tcmp\Att I- DTCC renal 120105 doc <br />