3. Agenda
• Welcome / Aging Infrastructure and Transformative
Opportunity
Paul Wessel, Green Parking Council
• Introductions
• The Green Parking Council & the Philadelphia Opportunity
Rachel Yoka, Timothy Haahs & Associates
• Philadelphia's new parcel-based stormwater fee and third-
party investment in stormwater retrofits
Alisa Valderrama, Natural Resources Defense Council
• Collaborative Opportunities
Mark Gander, AECOM
• Discussion
• Moving forward?
6. Certification & the GPC
Vision
• Create a new rating system that
will transform the parking
industry
• Address a critical void in the
green building marketplace
Operating Philosophy
• Collaborative
• Volunteer driven
• Open source
• Ready for challenge, revision,
adaptation, growth,
transformation
7. Current Framework
• Organized for both new and existing structured
facilities
– LEED/GG may apply to new
– Addressing existing critical to success
• Meaningful, with enough “teeth”, yet
achievable with commitment
– “Excessive burden” of LEED
8. Overarching strategies
Increase:
1. Committed & educated
leadership
2. Transportation alternatives
3. Energy efficiency
4. Use of renewable energy
5. Support for rating systems
6. Community & vitality
Decrease:
1. Carbon emissions &
pollution
2. Waste generation
3. Harmful chemical use
4. Potable water use
5. Cost
9. Structure and Organization
Life Cycle
Assessment
Transportation
Management
Association
Parking Pricing
Shared Parking
Placemaking
Rideshare
Alternative Fuel
Vehicles
Carshare
Traffic Flow Plan
Bicycle Parking
Energy Efficient
Lighting
Lighting Controls
Parking Guidance
Systems
EV Charging
Stations
Indoor Water
Efficiency
Rainwater
Harvesting
Water Efficient
Landscaping
Greywater Reuse
10. Today’s Opportunity
• Application of certification strategies to
Philadelphia’s parking industry – both surface
and structured assets
• Generate business opportunities, decrease
operational costs, and do the right thing
• Lead the market in innovation and creativity
11. Unique Philly Opportunity
• Parking is part of the solution, rather than the problem
• Focus on voluntary efforts to improve facilities
• Support &
• Collaboration opportunity versus adversarial relationship
• Recasting of relationship as private AND public parking
facilities
13. Drawing Private Capital to Green Infrastructure
October 2012
Presented by:
Alisa Valderrama
Natural Resources Defense Council
14. Overview
• Deploying green infrastructure at a citywide or regional scale can help meet
Clean Water Act goals for stormwater (MS4) and sewage overflows (CSOs).
• Major, long-term investment is required to green the existing built environment
in our cities.
• Need to take advantage of both public and private funding sources.
• Cities can leverage private investment through policies that:
(i) Establish design/performance standards for redevelopment projects;
(ii) Drive private property owners to retrofit existing developed parcels; and
(iii) Create or enhance opportunities for private capital to underwrite up-front
costs of retrofits.
• With appropriate public policy and financial toolkits, private capital investment
can enable and accelerate green infrastructure retrofits.
• Philadelphia provides an excellent test case!
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Philadelphia’s Green City Clean Waters Plan
• Relies on green infrastructure for a majority of the required reductions in sewage
overflows
• City can claim credit for “greened acres” on private property:
• Greened acres through redevelopment standards
• Greened acres through voluntary retrofits on existing developments
• Stormwater fees and credits incentivize private property owners to retrofit
existing development
17. Philadelphia’s parcel-based stormwater rate
structure
• Previous stormwater fee based on water usage (measured by water meter)
• New fee based on: impervious surface area + gross area + min. parcel charge:
For fiscal year 2014 (proposed):
Impervious area= $4.50 per 500 sf
Gross area rate= $0.56 per 500 sf
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18. The new fee structure may also improve the
“financeability” of green infrastructure retrofits:
• Substantial discount on fee available for owners who manage first inch of
stormwater on their parcel.
• Parcel owners need to re-apply for the credit every four years.
• Over time, retrofits will pay for themselves through avoided stormwater fees.
Example: Under Philadelphia’s current rate and fee, for example, project costs
should fall below $36,000 per acre ($0.82 per square foot) if the project is to pay
back within 10 years.
Limited data to generalize about retrofit costs
Value of credit will go up over time as stormwater rates increase
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19. Many parcel owners lack the cash to pay the upfront
costs of retrofits and will likely seek financing
• Traditional financing mechanisms are likely unavailable because of:
Existing leverage on assets and lack of collateral
No track record of repayment for such loans
• As a result, many property owners are unable to respond to the incentives created
by the credit and fee structure
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20. NatLab: Innovative Financing for Stormwater Retrofits s
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The Natural Infrastructure Financing
Lab (NatLab) is a partnership
between the NRDC, EKO Asset
Management, and The Nature
Conservancy
Sponsorship
Goal
Pilot Project
Develop innovative strategies for
financing conservation and green
infrastructure
Focus on deployment of green
infrastructure (“GI”) solutions for
storm-water management in
Philadelphia
21. Looking Ahead…
Large scale potential for private investment in green infrastructure retrofits
• Nationwide:
o About 1,000 communities already have impervious area-based stormwater fees;*
many of those offer credits for property retrofits that reduce runoff
o 770 CSO communities, over 7,000 MS4 communities
• Philadelphia is an incubator for green infrastructure financing ideas
o Philadelphia has one of the most enticing stormwater fee reductions available
o NatLab (Natural Infrastructure Financing Laboratory)
NRDC, TNC, & EKO Asset Management Partners
Working with the City to develop and implement financing strategies
*http://www.wku.edu/engineering/civil/fpm/swusurvey/
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Report Links and Contacts
Contacts:
Alisa Valderrama | Senior Project Finance Attorney, Center for Market Innovation
Office: 212-727-4438 | 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
avalderrama@nrdc.org | www.nrdc.org
Lawrence Levine | Senior Attorney, Water Program
Office: 212-727-4548 | 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
llevine@nrdc.org | www.nrdc.org
Report Links:
Financing Stormwater Retrofits in Philadelphia and Beyond
http://www.nrdc.org/water/files/StormwaterFinancing-report.pdf
Rooftops to Rivers II: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer
Overflows
http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftopsii/files/rooftopstoriversII.pdf
26. • Work in 130 countries at the moment
• 45,000 employees of which 35% are US based
• 356 in the Forbes 500
• $8.1 B revenue in last fiscal year
• Architecture, planning, economics, engineering, construction
management, transportation, energy, water, government services,
etc.
The Numbers
28. • An operating philosophy
• A point of view
• A service we provide our clients
• Something for which we advocate
How we think about sustainability
Sustainability is about managing
complexity in ways that increase value
and reduce risk.
36. Decision Support Tool
ArcGIS Based
Developed with
Microsoft Visual
Basic .NET
27 indicators
considered
User-defined
analysis areas
User-defined
weighting factors
All data included
in Geodatabase
37. Prioritization Process
NFIP Claims
Risk Deciles
HAZUS AAL
Sediment
Loading
Phosphorous
Loading
Nitrogen
Loading
Percent
Stream Miles
Impaired
Percent
Stream Miles
w/ TMDL
Prioritization
FLOODING
Prioritization
WATER
QUALITY
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
% %
Erosion
Potential
%
Comprehensive Prioritization
Example Water
Quality Input Data
Example Flooding
Input data
100%
100%
User
Input
Weight
User
Input
Weight
User
Input
Weight
User
Input
Weight
Percent
Impervious
Population
Density
Percent
Wetlands
Percent Tree
Cover
Critical Habitat
Quality
Prioritization
WATERSHED
HEALTH
%
%
%
%
%
Example Watershed
Health Input Data
100%
User
Input
Weight
%
User
Input
Weight
Population in
Floodplain
%
Site Specific
Issues%
Site Specific
Issues
%
Site Specific
Issues
%
44. Financial (LCA)
Capital Costs
Operating, Maintenance,
Replacement, and Avoided
Costs
Environmental
Climate
Habitat
Water Use
Water Quality
Air Quality
Natural Resource Inputs for
Construction Materials
Social
System Resilience
Ratepayer Affordability/Costs
Bicycle and Pedestrian
Environment
Odor
Noise
Recreation / Open Space
Employment/Jobs
Cultural /Historic Resources
Construction Impacts
TBL Evaluation Criteria (Key Performance Indicators)
45. Operations and
maintenance
Replacement and
renewal
Decommissioning
Use of alternate
energy
Avoided water
treatment
Avoided combined
sewer discharge
Design and
planning
Capital equipment
Installation and
construction
Operating
cost
Avoided cost
Capital
cost
LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS (LCA)
47. SMART Platforms for Monitoring and Measurement
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Data modeling and
analytics to create
insights from data to
feed decision support
and actions
Comparison
of historical data,
with newly….
collected data…
Data
Collection
Data
Integration
PHYSICAL DOMAIN
Inspections & Surveys
DIGITAL DOMAIN
Remote Electronic Monitoring
Metering
Sensing
Real Time
Data Integration
Real Time
and Historical
Data
Data Modeling
and Analytics
Visualization and
Decision Support
(Network Response,
prolong asset life,
optimize O&M, etc.)
The intersection of the ‘physical’ with the ‘digital’ creates SMARTer opportunities
58. 1. Concentration and typology aligned with appropriate
intervention
2. Focus on Lower Schuylkill District
EcoDistrict and Innovation District
Sunoco/Carlyle Group
Synergies and leverage with Navy Yard/Sports Complex
3. City just passed new zoning code
4. #1 issue in Central District is parking (type, location, quantity)
5. Strategic collaborations and opportunities
Considerations
