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Nsc Gi Talk Nov 2007
1. GROWING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE:
how to create high-performance
landscapes and healthy cities
Nate Cormier, ASLA, LEED AP
Senior Landscape Architect
SvR Design Company
2. GI layers and elements
1. WHAT IS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE?
8. Introduction
Jamison Square, Portland, Oregon
Beaver Lake Park,
Sammamish, Washington
traditional parks, gardens, and trails link communities to this nature matrix
10. Forms are patterns
“the forms we conceive are really patterns, and patterns are the
configuration of relationships between natural systems…” –David Miller
11. GI layers and elements
2. ELEMENTS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
12. layers
High Point housing
redevelopment, Seattle
Looking at any community…
14. layers
mobility
water
community
habitat
Peeling apart a series of green infrastructure systems like layers
and looking at their constituent parts...
72. 1) educate the public
Mark Childs, Designing Compelling Public Places
Mike Houck, Creating Livable Cities with Urban Green Space
Robert Garcia, The City Project: New Open Spaces for Social Justice in Los Angeles
Patrick Condon, Green Urban Infrastructure for the 21st Century
OSS2100 included many public lectures, articles, and events
LFP Legacy had a Green Infrastructure Festival
73. 1) educate the public
from the Cascade Agenda by the
Cascade Land Conservancy
Olmsted Brothers plan
OSS2100 linked the effort to Seattle’s history and current imperatives
around growth, public health, and global warming
77. 3) discover the anatomy of the landscape
OSS2100 Technical Panels: Development, Biodiversity, Waters of Puget Sound,
Future Scenarios, Seattle Parks, Climate Change, Transportation Futures
what are your existing green infrastructure elements?
what is missing? what would make the system whole?
78. 4) develop a long-term vision
OSS2100 Green Futures Charrette: 350 people x 3 days
79. 4) develop a long-term vision
watershed by watershed, system by system
80. 4) develop a long-term vision
Seattle’s Green Infrastructure Plan
81. 4) develop a long-term vision
Lake Forest Park’s Green Infrastructure Plan
82. 4) develop a long-term vision
Lake Forest Park’s Green Infrastructure Plan
83. 5) identify catalytic projects
LFP Legacy projects to be integrated into comp plan and CIP
86. PROJECT LOCATION:
A2. Town Center main hub @ intersection of main Creekways and Arterial Green
Streets
VISIBILITY: high
CHALLENGE: high
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• create a wider riparian buffer and remove • use bioswales, green roofs, and other LID
fish blockages at 522 and under Town features to manage parking lot run-off
Center Mobility
• daylight Lyon Creek through the parking lot • improve sidewalks and crosswalks to connect
Community neighbors to Town Center
• create high-density, mixed-use, transit- • create trail along Lyon Creekway (start of
oriented development connection between BG and Interurban)
• create a central civic space for community • park & ride facility
87. PROJECT LOCATION:
A4. Tolt Pipeline Trail gateway on the northeast end of Bothell Way Arterial Green
Street and the Lakeway
VISIBILITY: low
CHALLENGE: low
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• restore maintenance-appropriate native • use bioswales, rain gardens, and other LID
habitat in pipeline right-of-way features to manage trail run-off
Community Mobility
• build multi-use trail for bikes and pedestrians
88. PROJECT LOCATION:
B2. West Fork Confluence hublet at intersection of Lyon Creekway and Ballinger
Way Arterial Green Street
VISIBILITY: high
CHALLENGE: medium
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• improve riparian and wetland habitat • use bioswales, rain gardens, and other LID
around creek confluence features to manage run-off from Ballinger Way
Community Mobility
• incentive a market or coffee shop • build part of the trail on the mainstem Lyon
destination along Ballinger Way Creekway
• redevelop a segment of Ballinger Way as a
complete street for bicycles, transit, and
pedestrians
89. PROJECT LOCATION:
C1. Orchard Park new park on 35th Ave. NE in the Lyon Creekway
VISIBILITY: low
CHALLENGE: low
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• improve Lyon Creek riparian habitat • use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID
features to manage run-off from park and
Community
street
• acquire land for park
Mobility
• create orchard-themed passive open space
• build portion of Lyon Creekway trail
amenities
• improve sidewalks and crosswalks near park
90. PROJECT LOCATION:
D1. Greening Perkins Way McAleer Creekway trail on Perkins from Whisper
Confluence to 178th intersection
VISIBILITY: high
CHALLENGE: medium
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• improve riparian and instream habitat along • use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID
McAleer Creekway features to manage run-off from trail and
street
Community
Mobility
• build benches and overlooks for watching
and learning the creek • redevelop Perkins as one way with a separate
trail (on creek side) for bikes and peds;
• build trailhead onto Creekway trail
91. PROJECT LOCATION:
D2. 178th Street Gateway gateway on 178th Street Arterial Green Street
VISIBILITY: high
CHALLENGE: low
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• improve wetland habitat in the Hillside Creek • use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID
headwaters features to manage run-off from street
Community Mobility
• build creative gateway elements on 178th • redevelop a segment of the 178th Street
Street Arterial Green Street Arterial Green Street as a complete street for
bicycles, transit, and pedestrians
92. PROJECT LOCATION:
E1. Greening 158th Street pilot Residential Green Street between 33rd and 35th in the
Sheridan Heights neighborhood
VISIBILITY: medium
CHALLENGE: medium
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• plant native plants for wildlife habitat in LID • use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID
features features to manage run-off from street
Community Mobility
• use grouped mailboxes to create mini- • meander street to slow traffic
gathering places • create trail-like sidewalk
93. PROJECT LOCATION:
E3. Greening Brookside School schoolyard hublet at the confluence of the
Brookside and Hillside Creekways
VISIBILITY: high
CHALLENGE: low
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• improve riparian and wetland habitat at • use green roofs, rain gardens, and other LID
confluence features to manage run-off from school
Community Mobility
• increase environmental and green building • improve safe school walking routes from
education neighborhood and from 178th Street Arterial
Green Street
• build environmental art with kids to inspire
stewardship • increase public health and physical activity
education
94. PROJECT LOCATION:
F4. McAleer Creek Delta @ intersection of the McAleer Creekway and the Lakeway
VISIBILITY: medium
CHALLENGE: high
POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:
Habitat Water
• restore and enhance Lake Washington • use bioswales, rain gardens, and other LID
shoreline features to manage run-off from adjacent
roads and residences
• create more distributary channels in McAleer
Creek Mobility
Community • build trail spur between Bothell Way, Burke
Gilman trail, and the shoreline
• acquire lakeside parcels to increase public
access to the shoreline
• build park amenities such as picnic shelters
and restrooms for shoreline visitors