This workshop is a three-hour event for planners and other municipal workers in the Blackstone and Ten Mile River watershed region on how to incorporate low-impact development elements into their existing regulations and plans. Avoiding and reducing impacts of stormwater runoff through careful site planning and design can help to reduce municipal service costs, increase property values and preserve community character. However, many towns have local regulations that inadvertently encourage more development impacts than are necessary.

Attendees will learn about LID site planning and design guidance to provide communities with the specific standards, case studies and economic justification they can use to revise their existing land use regulations to more effectively avoid and reduce the impacts of development to water quality, habitat and community character.

Instructors:

Scott Millar

(1 Ratings)