Green Streets and Funding presentation delivered at 2009 Tennessee Municipal League conference. Learn simple tips to find and program funds to make water quality improvements, in conjunction with your community’s road projects. Interactive workshop includes: 1. Photos of example projects and funding sources to demonstrate workable ideas 2. A simple planning/funding cycle process to follow 3. Q & A on technical issues such as porous pavement and other infiltration techniques
There are a thousand things I would love to tell you, but this presentation is about the slides showing two things: A specific result of a planning process that was funded 10% to 50% out of a general fund. Engage your experts in funding, streets, and stormwater management, coordinate with water/sewer. Porous pavement parking lot note - always use crushed aggregate.
Evan N. Pratt, PEPrincipal Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.
Evan N. Pratt, PEEvan N. Pratt, PEPrincipal Principal Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.
First, seek to understandFirst, seek to understandWhat are your assets worth?What are your assets worth?What are your needs? What are your needs?
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Capital Improvement Plan – doesn’t have to be complicated – but you need to make sure the information in your organization is mined, collected, and used to produce priorities for maintenance and capital work.
CIP for Roads and CIP for Roads and StormwaterStormwaterWhat funding sources will work?What funding sources will work?Are you at the MPO table?Are you at the MPO table?
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CIP = Capital Improvement Plan MPO = Metropolitan Planning Organization
Prefab Infiltration CB System DDA? SRF?
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DDA = Downtown Development Authority SRF = State Revolving Fund
StormwaterStormwater and Roads and Roads interdepartmental communicationinterdepartmental communicationManage asset lifeManage asset life--cycle costscycle costsSpend maintenance money firstSpend maintenance money first
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In some communities this may be 1, 2, or 3 people, but your stormwater person, roads person, and funding expert must work together, understand their mission, and understand each other. Their work will keep your community as one committed to quality development.
Planning Process: Planning Process: ActionAction
Priority list of roads and municipal Priority list of roads and municipal facilities, 2facilities, 2--5 years5 yearsDetermine best outcome for each Determine best outcome for each street or capital projectstreet or capital project
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Your road people and stormwater personnel MUST know where the sandy soils are – infiltration has an inherent life-cycle cost advantage due to minimal operations/maintenance. Also, the stormwater person must be the first to see the long range paving program – if you don’t have one, its cheap and easy to decide the best priorities for 4-5 years. DPW or Engineers recommend, Council approves. Usually need 2 years to identify stormwater funding, 4 or more years for Federal Aid roads. Can you get donated ROW to cover a 20% match? Explain the benefit to donors: major curb appeal. Can you get 100% infiltration to relieve your storm sewer capacity or quality issues?
Planning Process: Planning Process: ActionActionFunding the Funding the stormwaterstormwater systemsystemFunding the roadFunding the roadWhat will score well?What will score well?Is a funding expert helping to Is a funding expert helping to plan?plan?Cost comparisonCost comparison
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Who has a stormwater utility? The Road: Some funding sources may allow you to fund a lane of roadway and base, if it would be necessary to install or remove the stormwater system. Federal aid eligible streets will typically fund stormwater quality upgrades to the system at the same match. Some water quality measures can actually cost less.
Funding TipFunding Tip
Include Include stormwaterstormwater quality quality features in estimatefeatures in estimateMay be 5 years in advance of May be 5 years in advance of construction for Federal Aidconstruction for Federal Aid
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You can always remove the stormwater quality features if needed, and request fewer dollars, but it’s a tough thing to increase your program allocations. Can you get 100% infiltration to relieve your storm sewer capacity or quality issues?
I-75 Federal Aid + state match. EarmarkII--75 Federal Aid + state match. Earmark75 Federal Aid + state match. Earmark
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Earmark is not a dirty word. This is an example of a freeway interchange with fully funded stormwater treatment wetlands in all four quadrants. Features mixed-use development at the interchange. After construction, in additions to development here, (1.9 M Sq ft retail center to upper left with a 1.3 M sft mall and mixed retail outparcels – jewelry, furniture, restaurants), similar retail on smaller scale to south, several hundred apartments to upper right.
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Mixed use development at the interchange. After construction, in additions to development here, (1.9 M Sq ft retail center to lower right with a 1.3 M sft mall and mixed retail outparcels – jewelry, furniture, restaurants), similar retail on smaller scale to south, several hundred apartments to lower left as transition to single family.
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Project Plan document for bioswales and raingardens along an urban collector, about 11,500 vpd. Will still have curb and gutter.
Funding Tips:Funding Tips:
For EDA or other grantFor EDA or other grant--funded funded roadsroadsScoringScoring--are there are there TMDLsTMDLs or other or other regulatory requirements?regulatory requirements?
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For EDA, and other grant funded road programs, you also need to be at least 2 years ahead with your planning team, but 4 is even better. This gives time to try twice with funding sources, makes you better prepared to take advantage of surprise funding – ARRA, think of all the other surprise programs in the past 25 years. Not 5 or 6 years go by when there isn’t a special funding boost to some area of infrastructure.
Economic Development Assistance: Economic Development Assistance: Squirrel Road wetland crossingSquirrel Road wetland crossing
Galloway Creek wetland and wet Galloway Creek wetland and wet prairie. Mitigated from Squirrel Road prairie. Mitigated from Squirrel Road crossing.crossing.
Clinton RiverClinton River
Fire St No. 1: u/g detention, vortechnicsFire St No. 1: Fire St No. 1: u/gu/g detention, detention, vortechnicsvortechnics
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This intersection was funded with Tax Increment Financing money - a DDA is one type of TIF you may be familiar with. The project value was about $22 million worth including two bridges.
Fire department capital fundFire department capital fundFire department capital fund
Public/private partnership: step pool + bioswale detentionPublic/private partnership: step pool + bioswale detention
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For Taylor Road, 5 acre clubhouse site, and about 1/3 of adjacent development of a huge world headquarters campus of an electronic circuitboard supplier. Nice personal property value!
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Mixed uses – recreation, light manufacturing, light industrial, restaurants, entertainment concrete plant, single family residential, apartments, public safety, retail, service (gas stations.)
MaplehurstMaplehurst StreetsStreets
$3.5 M assessment + general $3.5 M assessment + general fundfund
Direct discharge to Clinton RiverDirect discharge to Clinton River
Invest first in those who have a big problem and invite them to be a part of an investment – give them twice the value of their investment. For many people, it’s more fair than a road millage or using general fund.
SRF application: Civic Center SRF application: Civic Center retrofitsretrofits
Gravel infiltration systemGravel infiltration systemGravel infiltration system
Opportunity: police capital fundOpportunity: police capital fundOpportunity: police capital fund
Retrofit green roof: SRFRetrofit green roof: SRFRetrofit green roof: SRF
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This project was not only green, it won an state APWA award. Firing range is underneath us and the entry walk, all the plantings are infiltration beds on the roof of the firing range, with treatment of first flush. That funding is available now with ARRA, with little competition, and anybody who was thinking this way 2 years ago just found out that the funding pays for the upgrade with original construction. I assume you all know that bond rates are very attractive now.
SRF: City parking lot w/bioswale DDA, Authority, storm utility, etc. SRF: City parking lot SRF: City parking lot w/bioswalew/bioswale DDA, Authority, storm utility, etc. DDA, Authority, storm utility, etc.
Fire St #3: Fire capital fundFire St #3: Fire capital fund
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Underground Detention, vortechnics
Library fundLibrary fundLibrary fund
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Perforated pipe with voids and restricted outlet, backs up into wetlands, but controlled so patio is available from 4,000 sft meeting room, never flooded.
Evan N. Pratt, PEEvan N. Pratt, PEPrincipal Principal Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.Orchard, Hiltz & McCliment, Inc.