{"id":7585,"date":"2019-08-20T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T22:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7585"},"modified":"2020-09-10T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:38:12","slug":"encouraging-green-stormwater-infrastructure-for-new-private-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=7585","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Green Stormwater Infrastructure for New Private Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>City of Houston report recommends permeable pavement, green roofs, vegetated strips, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, and urban forest<\/h3>\n<p>Aug. 20, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/mayor\/chief-recovery-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">City of Houston\u2019s Chief Recovery Office<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/kinder.rice.edu\/urbanedge\/2019\/08\/19\/green-development-incentives-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released a report<\/a> recommending incentives to private developers to incorporate nature-based engineering, otherwise known as Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), in their projects.<\/p>\n<p>The types of green infrastructure identified by the year-long study, funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonendowment.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Houston Endowment<\/a>, include bioretention (raingardens), permeable pavement, green roofs, rainwater harvesting, soil amendments, urban forests, and vegetated filter strips to slow and absorb runoff from parking lots and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended incentives to developers include property tax abatements, a program of awards and recognition, a streamlined permitting process, and offering alternative development rules, such as reduced parking requirements, if incorporating green stormwater infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>R. G. Miller Engineers, Inc. in association with Asakura Robinson, Corona Environmental Consulting, and Neptune Street Advisors conducted the study, which began in May 2018 and ended in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kinder.rice.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/downloads\/Final_GI%20Incentives%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Widflowers-GSI-report-8.19.19-e1566340759431.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Widflowers-GSI-report-8.19.19-1024x452.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from the report &#8220;Houston Incentives for Green Development.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Houston report recommends permeable pavement, green roofs, vegetated strips, rain gardens, rainwater harvesting, and urban forest Aug. 20, 2019 The City of Houston\u2019s Chief Recovery Office has released a report recommending incentives to private developers to incorporate nature-based engineering, otherwise known as Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9034,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions\/9034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}