The Pathway to Green and Complete Streets: Steps, Success Stories, and Lessons Learned

Green streets can provide many environmental, social and economic benefits. In addition to stormwater runoff reduction and water quality improvement benefits, green streets can be designed to calm traffic, provide safer pedestrian and bicycle paths, mitigate urban heat island effects, improve community aesthetics, and stimulate community investments. This webcast featured EPA’s Green Streets Handbook, a document intended to help state and local transportation agencies, municipal officials, designers, stakeholders and others to select, design and implement site design strategies and green infrastructure practices for streets, alleys and parking lots. Additional presentations from Arlington County, VA, Grand Rapids, MI, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust featured on-the-ground green street programs, success stories and lessons learned, and highlighted the environmental, economic, and social benefits of green infrastructure practices.

Details

Thursday, August 5, 2021
1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT

Speakers

Alisha Goldstein

Town of Chapel Hill, NC

Sadie Drescher

Chesapeake Bay Trust

Carrie Rivette

City of Grand Rapids, MI

Harrisburg, PA

Christin Jolicoeur

Arlington County, VA