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SRCs Reduce Stormwater Runoff with Green Infrastructure
May 2019This interactive map outlines the District of Columbia’s Stormwater Retention Credit (SRC) Trading Program and locates green infrastructure projects in relation to several local watersheds. -
PVRPC, MA, Toolkit for Green Infrastructure
2014This toolkit examines green infrastructure tactics, zoning and regulation, financing, and model policies and programs. -
New Jersey Green Infrastructure Municipal Toolkit
2018This toolkit addresses the function and benefits of green infrastructure and contains resources for its planning, implementation, and maintenance. -
A Natural Solution: An Introduction to Low Impact Development For Commercial and Residential Applications in the Grand Traverse Region
January 2016This guide discusses the approaches to and benefits of low-impact development (LID) for residential and commercial use. -
A Quick Guide to Community Planning for Green Infrastructure
2013This guide addresses the ecological performance of forests and how to incorporate them into green infrastructure planning. -
Evaluating and Conserving Green Infrastructure Across the Landscape: A Practitioner's Guide: North Carolina
November 2013by: Karen FirehockThis guide outlines land management strategies for the conservation and restoration of natural assets as green infrastructure in North Carolina. -
Georgia Coastal Stormwater Supplement to the Stormwater Management Manual
April 2009by: Michael Novotney, Kelly Collins, Greg HoffmanThis guide offers strategies for using green infrastructure to reduce the negative impacts of land development and nonpoint source pollution in Georgia’s coastal communities. -
Getting to Green: Paying for Green Infrastructure
December 2014by: Ann LaDuca, John KoscoThis guide analyzes several green infrastructure financing options. -
Giving Green Streets the Green Light: Improving Water Quality Through Capital Improvement Projects
June 2019This guide explores best practices, policy approaches, and tactics to implementing green streets. -
Great Lakes Green Streets Guidebook
2013This guide presents planning, design, and construction considerations for implementing green streets and highlights three tactics. -
Green Streets: A Conceptual Guide to Effective Green Streets Design Solutions
2009This guide examines the use of green infrastructure tactics in residential, commercial, and arterial streets and alleys. -
Local Water Policy Innovation: A Road Map for Community-Based Stormwater Solutions
September 2008by: Brent DenzinThis guide examines local policy solutions for stormwater management including regulation for low-impact development (LID). -
Mesa, AZ, Low Impact Development Toolkit
April 2015This guide describes several low-impact development (LID) tactics, highlights installation and maintenance requirements, presents best practices, and highlights several sites as case studies. -
Low Impact Development: Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound
December 2012by: Curtis HinmanThis guide describes the technical aspects of low-impact development (LID) in site assessment, planning, conservation, and construction. -
Low Impact Development Manual for Southern California: Technical Guidance and Site Planning Strategies
April 2010This guide presents recommendations for developing design, construction, maintenance standards, codes, and ordinances for low-impact development (LID). -
Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure: Municipal Handbook- Incentive Mechanisms
June 2009This guide describes five incentive mechanisms for promoting the use of green infrastructure on private property and provides examples. -
Missouri Guide to Green Infrastructure
May 2012This guide covers green infrastructure planning, regulation, and implementation strategies. -
Newington, CT, Low Impact Development and Stormwater Manual
November 2013This guide covers low-impact development (LID) planning principles, design considerations, and standards. -
New Jersey Developers, Green Infrastructure Guide
August 2017This guide reviews green infrastructure tactics according to different property types for financial, regulatory, and community benefits. -
NRPC, NH, Low Impact Development Guidebook
2010This guide outlines the function and benefits of low-impact development (LID) and describes several types of tactics. -
The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
2010This guide examines the benefits of several green infrastructure tactics and the measurement, quantification, and valuation of these benefits. -
Stormwater Management Manual for Western Washington
July 2019This guide provides recommendations for complying to Washington water quality and quantity standards. -
The Chicago Green Alley Handbook
2010This guide describes the benefits, design features, and best practices of green alleys. -
Washington, DC, Stormwater Management Guidebook
July 2013by: Greg Hoffman, Rebecca Stack, Brian Van WyeThis guide reviews the technical criteria and specifications to comply with Washington DC’s stormwater management regulations. -
Upgrade Your Infrastructure: A Guide to the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard And Building Stormwater Retrofits
December 2012This guide presents a Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard (GIPS) as a tool for long-term green infrastructure planning. -
Vermont Guide to Stormwater Management for Homeowners and Small Businesses
June 2018This guide describes approaches to designing and implementing green stormwater infrastructure for homeowners and small business owners. -
Urban Street Stormwater Guide
June 2017This guide highlights best practices for designing and constructing sustainable, or green, streets. -
Denver, CO, Globeville Neighborhood Plan
Adopted December 2014by: City & County of DenverThis subarea plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health and Neighborhood Planning collections. -
Broomfield, CO, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted November 2016The city’s comprehensive plan outlines actions and policies for stormwater management including the use of vegetated swales, tree preservation, and utilizing natural biological systems. -
Crystal Lake, IL, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Adopted March 2012The city’s comprehensive plan includes a chapter on planning, identifying, and mapping green infrastructure. -
Sandy Springs, GA, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted February 2017The city’s comprehensive plan promotes the use of low-impact development (LID) and green infrastructure to improve stormwater management. -
Passaic County, NJ, Master Plan
Adopted November 2018The county’s comprehensive plan includes an element that offers recommendations for planning both green infrastructure and low-impact development (LID). -
Santa Clara County, CA, Green Stormwater Infrastructure Plan
Adopted September 2019This functional plan describes the process of incorporating green infrastructure into county projects to reduce runoff pollution and take advantage of additional environmental and social benefits. -
NORSD, OH, Green Infrastructure Plan
Adopted April 2012This functional plan describes the process of locating, designing, implementing, maintaining, and evaluating green infrastructure to address long-term water management requirements. -
Philadelphia, PA, Green City Clean Waters
Updated June 2011This functional plan presents green infrastructure as an effective approach to addressing environmental, demographic, and financial challenges while also managing water resources in Philadelphia. -
PVPC, MA, Green Infrastructure Plan
Adopted February 2014This functional plan covers the use of green infrastructure as a stormwater management approach and provides tools for municipalities transitioning towards using this approach. -
Norfolk, VA, A Green Infrastructure Plan for Norfolk Building Resilient Communities
Adopted July 2018This functional plan assesses natural assets to design green infrastructure for community resilience and effective integration with gray infrastructure in Norfolk, Virginia. -
TMACOG, MI-OH, The Junction Neighborhood Greening Plan
Adopted December 2015This subarea plan outlines a neighborhood revitalization strategy that uses green infrastructure to address water quality, flooding, vacancy, and property blight. -
Northampton, MA, Credit and Incentive Policy for Stormwater and Flood Control Utility
Adopted January 2016This standalone policy outlines an incentive program for the use of green stormwater infrastructure tactics on several types of properties. -
Tuscon, AZ, Green Streets Policy
Updated August 2013This standalone policy presents guidelines for incorporating green street tactics into publicly funded new construction and reconstruction projects with landscaping. -
Portland, OR, Green Streets Policy
Adopted April 2007This standalone policy promotes the use of green street tactics in both public and private development projects. -
Ann Arbor, MI, Green Streets Policy
Adopted February 2014This standalone policy provides standards for the implementation of green streets. -
Binghampton, NY, City Charter and Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2011The city’s code of ordinances provides requirements to minimize erosion and stormwater runoff with green infrastructure. -
Brooksville, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2018The city’s code of ordinances presents requirements for the use of green roofs to receive a percentage of open space credit. -
El Paso, TX, Municipal Code
Updated November 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Outdoor Lighting, and Solar Energy collections. -
Etna, PA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated November 2018This regulation belongs to the Green Stormwater Infrastructure and Solar Energy collections. -
Daphne, AL, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2019The city’s code of ordinances encourages the use of low-impact development (LID) tactics for sidewalk planning, development design, landscape design, and conservation. -
El Monte, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2019The city’s code of ordinances outlines detailed requirements for the use of low-impact development (LID) tactics in the site design and post-construction operations and maintenance of all development. -
Green Values National Stormwater Management Calculator
2009This web page contains a tool for calculating the performance, costs, and benefits of a green infrastructure or low-impact development project compared to one with conventional stormwater tactics. -
Low Impact Development Center
2018This web page provides design and planning resources, technical assistance, research, and training for low-impact development (LID).