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| The goal of LID site design strategies is to minimize these two sources of hydrologic impacts. Avoiding downstream impacts through non-structural, innovative site design methods is more economical, operationally efficient, and aesthetically pleasing than concentrating all stormwater management efforts on treating and controlling runoff downstream. | | The goal of LID site design strategies is to minimize these two sources of hydrologic impacts. Avoiding downstream impacts through non-structural, innovative site design methods is more economical, operationally efficient, and aesthetically pleasing than concentrating all stormwater management efforts on treating and controlling runoff downstream. |
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| Site designers should exhaust all opportunities for non-structural methods to prevent runoff from being generated before determining how to mitigate the land cover change and storm sewer impacts through structural LID practices and detention ponds. | | Site designer should exhaust all opportunities for non-structural methods to prevent runoff from being generated before determining how to mitigate the land cover change and storm sewer impacts through structural LID practices and detention ponds. |
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| LID site design strategies can be grouped into four themes: | | LID site design strategies can be grouped into four themes: |
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| The strategies need to be considered together as they all overlap and relate to each other. For example, preserving a natural channel will impact the layout of the site, and the layout of the site determines the extent of impervious area and optimal locations of structural BMPs. | | The strategies need to be considered together as they all overlap and relate to each other. For example, preserving a natural channel will impact the layout of the site, and the layout of the site determines the extent of impervious area and optimal locations of structural BMPs. |
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| | Take a look at the downloadable Site Design Strategies Factsheet below for a .pdf overview of LID Best Management Practices: |
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| ==Additional resources== | | ==Additional resources== |
| *[[Media:Better-Site-Design-Handbook.pdf|Better Site Design Handbook (pdf), Centre for Watershed Protection, 1998]]
| | ===Better Site Design Handbook, Centre for Watershed Protection (1998) & Urban Design Compendium, English Partnerships (2007)=== |
| *[[Media:UrbanDesignCompendium.pdf|Urban Design Compendium (pdf), English Partnerships (2007)]]
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| | Click below to review the following Site Design resources: |
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| | <pdf width="500" height="700">File:Better-Site-Design-Handbook.pdf</pdf> <pdf width="500" height="700">File:2 UrbanDesignCompendium.pdf</pdf> |
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