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Conservation Design, Low Impact Development,
Smart Growth & Sustainable Development
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Conservation Design
is a design approach to site development that
protects and incorporates natural site features into the stormwater management plan.
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http://www.cwp.org
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http://www.stormwatercenter.net
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http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/
This Web site offers a variety of self-paced training modules that represent
a basic and broad introduction to the watershed management field. The modules are organized by the
six themes listed above. Modules vary in the time they to complete, from ½ hour
to 2 hours. Fifteen of them are the core modules for the Watershed Academy
Certificate Program.
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Low Impact Development
is a new, comprehensive land planning and engineering
design approach with a goal of maintaining and enhancing the pre-development
hydrologic regime of urban and developing watersheds.
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Low Impact Development Center, Inc.
http://www.lid-stormwater.net/intro/background.htm
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http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/lid/
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Smart Growth
involves policies that set transportation and land use planning policy for urban areas
that benefits communities by preserving the natural environment. Smart growth advocates land
use patterns that are compact, walkable, bicycle-friendly, public transit oriented, and include
mixed-use development with a range of housing choices. A major goal is to prevent urban sprawl
by keeping the highest density in the center of town.
Comprehensive planning is used to design and revitalize communities with a unique
sense of community and place; preserve and enhance natural and cultural resources; equitably
distribute the costs and benefits of development; expand the range of transportation,
employment and housing choices; value long-range, regional considerations of sustainability
over a short term focus; and promote public health and healthy communities.
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http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/
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Sustainable Development Defined: Like
other large, guiding concepts such as justice or liberty, sustainable
development has many definitions. Most interpretations share the fundamental
ideas expressed in the definition found in Minnesota Statutes, Section
4A.07: "development that maintains or enhances economic opportunity
and community well-being while protecting and restoring the natural
environment upon which people and economies depend. Sustainable development
meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs."
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Minnesota’s Sustainable Development Initiative
http://www.eqb.state.mn.us/SDI/
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http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org
Sustainable Development definitions
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