THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR LID - Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management - page 87

Table 4-2 LID Site Design Process Checklist
Step 1 . Applicant's Concept Development
Step 2 . Regulatory Guidance
Municipal Inputs: Master Plan/Zoning/SLDO
• Consistent with guidance, requirements, and options?
• What does the comprehensive plan say?
• What does the ordinance say?
• How much of what goes where?
• Existing zoning district?
• Total number of units
• Type of units
• Density of units
• Any allowable options?
• Areawide clustering/concentrating?
• Are resource systems protected?
• Should the master plan or zoning be saying something else?
• Are LID solutions required?
• Incentivized?
• Enabled?
• Prohibited?
• Consistent with subdivision/land development ordinance (SLDO) requirements
and options?
• Performance standards for neotraditional, village, hamlet?
• Reduced building setbacks?
• Curbs required?
• Street width, parking, other impervious requirements?
• Cut requirements?
• Grading requirements?
• Landscaping?
• Erosion and sediment control?
• Should SLDO be saying something else in terms of indirect, though critical,
stormwater elements?
• Township SLDO/stormwater requirements?
• Peak rate and design storms?
• Total runoff volume?
• Water quality provisions?
• Methodological requirements?
• Maintenance requirements?
• Should the SLDO ordinance be saying something else in terms of direct stormwa-
ter management?
• Does SLDO require a building program to fit the constraints or opportunities of
the site's natural features?
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