Developers

What you can do as a Developer

Use Innovative Development Practices:

• Select your site wisely - Developing in an already developed area can lower infrastructure costs because sewer, water, utilities, and roads may be available.
• Choose the areas of your site to develop carefully - You can avoid putting the development where it will have an effect on important natural resources. In addition, you can cluster buildings and leave at least half of the property undeveloped so that it can handle rainwater through natural resources. This will reduce costs and add to open space.
• Use Low Impact Development (LID) practices - Roads, parking lots and other non-porous areas are the largest contributors to stormwater runoff. Generally the less porous the area, the worse the condition of nearby waterways. Low Impact Development allows developed land to handle rain more like how it was handled before the site was developed. The goal is to mimic a site's predevelopment hydrology by infiltrating, filtering, storing, evaporating, and detaining stormwater runoff.