Case Studies in Implementation: Best Local Land Use Practices

1. Case Studies in Implementation:Best Local Land Use Practices Chris Riddle, Ohio Lake Erie Commission Kirby Date, AICP, Cleveland State University John Aldrich, P.E., CDM Mark McCabe, P.E., CDM

2. Ohio Lake Erie Commission Mission: Protect & Restore Lake Erie Department of Agriculture Department of Development Department of Health Department of Natural Resources Department of Transportation Environmental Protection Agency

5. Lake Erie Protection and Restoration Plan 2000 Balanced Growth Taskforce 2001-2004 Linking Land Use Watershed Planning Framework State Agency Policies and Incentives Linking Land Use Best Local Land Use Practices Three Watershed Balanced Growth Pilot Plans and Future Plans Balanced Growth Strategy adopted by OLEC 2006 & 2010 Best Practices Training Program Credit: Wendy Kellogg, CSU

6. Best Local Land Use Practices 3 Model Ordinances Surface Water Management ~ Meadow Protection ~ Coastal Protection 11 Guidance Documents • Comprehensive Planning • Conservation Development • Compact Development • Transfer of Development Rights • Steep Slope Protection • Historic Preservation • Source Water Protection • Woodland Protection • Access Management • Brownfields Redevelopment • Scenic Protection • Agricultural Protection

7. Priority Best Local Land Use Practices • Comprehensive Planning • Compact Development • Conservation Development • Storm Water Management • Stream and Wetland Setbacks • Meadow Protection Project Focus

8. 3.CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT Apply Conservation Development, with adequate standards, where appropriate Priority Best Local Land Use Practices

9. Conventional Conservation Development • 40-50% Permanent Open Space • Quality Open Space • Resource Protection • Appropriate Development Intensity

14. Priority Best Local Land Use Practices 4. STORM WATER MANAGEMENT • Adopt storm water management and erosion control regulations for design and construction

15. Storm Water Management and Erosion/Sediment Control • Storm water management reduces quantity, and improves quality, of runoff in the watershed • Site based approach reduces long term costs to community

16. 5. STREAM AND WETLAND SETBACKS Adopt stream and wetland setback zoning regulations Priority Best Local Land Use Practices

18. Stream setback in a conservation development

19. Best Local Land Use Practices Case Study Project Developed by CDM, Inc. Under the Direction of Ohio Lake Erie Commission and Cleveland State University

20. Project Description • Develop case studies that illustrate and increase understanding of the land development implications of implementing OLEC Best Local Land Use Practices • Engage stakeholders in land development in identifying key opportunities and barriers to use of best practices • Use case studies in training workshops

21. Project Objectives • Resolve real and perceived barriers to acceptance of best practices by: • Developers • Local Governments • Buyers / tenants • Illustrate how properly-applied best practices can reduce costs and enhance property values • Provide adequate detail to support cost-effective implementation • Be repeatable for on-going education

22. Managing Storm Water Quantity • Impervious Surface: surface with minimal infiltration • Impervious surface model: 5 to 8 % change triggers degradation of watercourses

23. This report calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.

24. What are Best Practices? Precipitation Evapotranspiration Evapotranspiration Impervious Pervious Treatment Physical Chemical Biological Storage Detention Retention Runoff Source Control Runoff Conveyance / Diversion Pollutant Source Control Peak Attenuation Discharge Infiltration Infiltration Pollutants (to Disposal) Preservation Restoration Source Controls Control Systems Resource Protection

25. “Mythbusters” Factsheet • Objective: • Question commonly accepted development procedures • Present documented support of alternative development procedures • Factsheet Contents • 6 different common development storm water control practice areas • Myths/facts for each

26. TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE OBJECTIVES • Community Values • Environmental Values • Financial Viability Refer to Section 4

27. Designing to Project Objectives • Community Values • Health • Safety • Welfare • Aesthetics • Financial Viability • Property value • Construction costs • Marketability • Sustainability • Maintenance • Environmental Values • Quantity (Volume) discharges • Quality (Pollutant) discharges • Aquatic Habitat • Terrestrial Habitat • Regulations

28. B. Provide Site-Specific Details A. Confirm Project Objectives C. Establish Weights per Perceived Importance

29. B. Provide Site-Specific Details A. Confirm Project Objectives C. Establish Weights per Perceived Importance

30. B. Provide Site-Specific Details A. Confirm Cost Categories

31. Detention Detention Detention

33. One Maritime Plaza Fourth Floor Toledo, Ohio 43604 419.245.2514 http://lakeerie.ohio.gov http://balancedgrowth.ohio.gov Chris Riddle Environmental Specialist chrisriddle@ameritech.net

34. Questions? Kirby Date, AICP Tel. 216-687-5477 k.date@csuohio.edu