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Thornton Creek Water Quality Channel, Seattle, Washington

“Swale on Yale,” Seattle, Washington

Meadowbrook Pond, Seattle, Washington

High Point, Seattle, Washington

Multnomah County Building, Portland. Oregon

Seattle Municipal Courthouse and City Hall, Seattle, Washington

Colman Center, Seattle, Washington

Oxbow Park, Seattle, Washington

Element: cistern

Growing Vine Street, Seattle, Washington

Cascade Community Center, Seattle, Washington

Table of Elements

green infrastructure elements: mobility

performance metrics: percentage of people getting around without a car, obesity and diabetes rates, carbon footprint,

health calth care costs, pollutant levels

Chief Sealth Trail, Seattle, Washington, SvR

Element: complete street

assorted complete streets

Yale Avenue Campus, Seattle, Washington

Table of Elements

integrated systems form of a green infrastructure network, each landscape has a signature based on its elements

GI APPS

SvR with Jones & Jones for Lake Forest Park, Washington

A CASE STUDY IN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

LFP’s Green Infrastructure Festival

watershed basins as the fundamental planning unit

what are your existing green infrastructure elements?what is missing? what would make the system whole?

a multi-dimensional gap analysis

a 100-year vision charrette, system by system, basin by basin

Lake Forest Park’s Green Infrastructure Plan: corridors and hubs

LFP Legacy projects, equitably distributed by basin

online voting for priority projects

C1. Orchard Park

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:Habitat• improve Lyon Creek riparian habitatCommunity• acquire land for park• create orchard-themed passive open space

amenities

Water• use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID

features to manage run-off from park and street

Mobility• build portion of Lyon Creekway trail• improve sidewalks and crosswalks near park

PROJECT LOCATION: new park on 35th Ave. NE in the Lyon Creekway

VISIBILITY: lowCHALLENGE: low

A4. Tolt Pipeline Trail PROJECT LOCATION: gateway on the northeast end of Bothell Way Arterial Green

Street and the Lakeway

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:Habitat• restore maintenance-appropriate native

habitat in pipeline right-of-way Community

Water• use bioswales, rain gardens, and other LID

features to manage trail run-offMobility• build multi-use trail for bikes and pedestrians

VISIBILITY: lowCHALLENGE: low

D1. Greening Perkins Way

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:Habitat• improve riparian and instream habitat along

McAleer CreekwayCommunity• build benches and overlooks for watching

and learning the creek• build trailhead onto Creekway trail

Water• use rain gardens, bioswales, and other LID

features to manage run-off from trail and street

Mobility• redevelop Perkins as one way with a separate

trail (on creek side) for bikes and peds;

PROJECT LOCATION: McAleer Creekway trail on Perkins from Whisper

Confluence to 178th intersection VISIBILITY: highCHALLENGE: medium

E3. Greening Brookside School

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:Habitat• improve riparian and wetland habitat at

confluenceCommunity• increase environmental and green building

education• build environmental art with kids to inspire

stewardship

Water• use green roofs, rain gardens, and other LID

features to manage run-off from schoolMobility• improve safe school walking routes from

neighborhood and from 178th Street Arterial Green Street

• increase public health and physical activity education

PROJECT LOCATION: schoolyard hublet at the confluence of the

Brookside and Hillside CreekwaysVISIBILITY: highCHALLENGE: low

F4. McAleer Creek Delta PROJECT LOCATION: @ intersection of the McAleer Creekway and the Lakeway

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS:Habitat• restore and enhance Lake Washington

shoreline• create more distributary channels in McAleer

Creek Community• acquire lakeside parcels to increase public

access to the shoreline• build park amenities such as picnic shelters

and restrooms for shoreline visitors

Water• use bioswales, rain gardens, and other LID

features to manage run-off from adjacent roads and residences

Mobility• build trail spur between Bothell Way, Burke

Gilman trail, and the shoreline

VISIBILITY: mediumCHALLENGE: high

A2. Town Center PROJECT LOCATION: main hub @ intersection of main Creekways and Arterial Green

Streets

POSSIBLE PROJECT ELEMENTS (turn this into the TCNP)

• create a wider riparian buffer and remove fish blockages at 522 and under Town Center

• daylight Lyon Creek through the parking lot Community• create high-density, mixed-use, transit-

oriented development• create a central civic space for community

Water• use bioswales, green roofs, and other LID

features to manage parking lot run-offMobility• improve sidewalks and crosswalks to connect

neighbors to Town Center• create trail along Lyon Creekway (start of

connection between BG and Interurban)• park & ride facility

VISIBILITY: highCHALLENGE: high

GI APPS

URBAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

PLANNING

Table of Elements

Layering is more than analysis, it is an agenda. Where systems interact, we have the potential for high performance landscapes.

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