Low Impact Development definition

Low Impact Development or “LID” means a site design strategy that maintains, mimics or replicates pre- development hydrology through the use of numerous site design principles and small-scale treatment practices distributed throughout a site to manage runoff volume and water quality at the source.

Low Impact Development means a stormwater and land use management strategy that strives to mimic pre-disturbance hydrologic processes of infiltration, filtration, storage, evaporation and transpiration by emphasizing conservation, use of on-site natural features, site planning, and distributed stormwater management practices that are integrated into a project design.

Low Impact Development. (LID) means a stormwater management and land development strategy applied at the parcel and subdivision scale that emphasizes conservation and use of on-site natural features integrated with engineered, small-scale hydrologic controls to more closely mimic pre-development hydrologic functions.

Examples of Low Impact Development in a sentence

• Where runoff from contaminated areas is unavoidable, the applicant shall incorporate Low Impact Development (see H., below) and other Best Management Practices standards to minimize the discharge of stormwater-entrained pollutants to ground and surface waters.

• Low Impact Development practices (see § 7.2) shall be used in the design of the development proposal to reduce total recharge disruption to the minimum feasible, within the 15% cap.

• This project must comply with the City’s Post-Construction Urban Runoff Management Policy (Policy 6-29) which requires implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) which includes site design measures, source controls and numerically-sized Low Impact Development (LID) stormwater treatment measures to minimize stormwater pollutant discharges.

• Develop and implement measures to encourage and expand the use of Low Impact Development (LID) in new development and redevelopment.

• If the project is 5,000 square feet or more of new or replaced “net impervious” area (not Single Family Dwelling), or if the project is Single Family Dwelling with 15,000 square feet or more of new or replaced “net impervious” area, submit a Stormwater Control Plan with this application that identifies 1) Low Impact Development measures incorporated into the project design and 2) stormwater quality treatment measures.

More Definitions of Low Impact Development

Low Impact Development means the same as that term is defined in Section 19-5-108.5. (b)

Low Impact Development means an approach to storm water management that attempts to mimic pre-development conditions by compensating for losses of rainfall abstraction through infiltration, evapotranspiration, surface storage, and increased travel time to reduce excess runoff.

Low Impact Development means practices that limit off-site stormwater runoff (both peak and non-peak flows) to levels substantially similar to natural hydrology by emphasizing decentralized management practices and the protection of on-site natural features.

Low Impact Development or “LID” means a site planning and design strategy aimed at maintaining or replicating the predevelopment hydrology through the use of site planning, source control, and small-scale practices integrated throughout a site to prevent, infiltrate, and manage stormwater runoff as close to its source as possible. LID achieves natural resource protection by replenishing groundwater supplies, minimizing the stormwater runoff volume discharged to surface waters, and improving water quality. Examples of LID practices include bioretention, vegetated swales, stormwater planters, porous pavement or concrete, green roofs, rainwater collection systems for water reuse, and other similar methods.

Low Impact Development. (LID) means methods incorporating design measures to replicate pre-development hydrology to reduce the impacts of development at a lot-level basis, treating rainwater where it falls by creating conditions that allow the water to infiltrate back into the ground. LID emphasizes greater infiltration of stormwater on-site rather than regarding the stormwater as a nuisance condition and disposable.

Low Impact Development means practices that work with nature to manage storm water as close to its source as practicable, utilizing various principles: e.g., preserving and recreating natural landscape features; minimizing effective imperviousness; creating functional and aesthetically appealing site drainage; and treating storm water as a resource rather than a waste product.

Low Impact Development or “LID” means a stormwater and land use management