LID - Low Impact Development
An alternative approach to site design.

Workshop For Developers, Designers, Builders & Regulators

These workshops were conducted in the fall of 2007.

September 19, 2007 - The Georgetown Club, Georgetown, MA
Guest speaker: Kurt Gaertner, Director of Sustainable Development, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

September 26, 2007 - The Pinehills, Plymouth, MA
Guest speaker: Tony Green, Managing Partner The Pinehills

October 3, 2007 - Providence Biltmore, Providence, RI
Guest speaker: Grover Fugate, Executive Director, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council

Why LID?

Low-impact development (LID) is an alternative approach to site design that is natural resource based and incorporates a wide variety of low-cost structural and non-structural techniques. LID is a hot topic with state and local permitting agencies throughout the nation. Local zoning laws are being revised to incorporate smart growth and LID provisions. Conventional development using standard engineering practices commonly is a lengthy, time-consuming permitting process that results in sprawl, with environmental impacts and a reduction in real estate values.

This hands-on, practical short course covered land planning principles, design criteria, permitting strategies and used real case studies, and covered topics on how to:
• Increase real estate values;
• Reduce construction and maintenance costs; and
• Reduce permitting time.

LID is simple and effective.

The result is a hydrologically functional landscape that generates less surface runoff, less pollution, less erosion, and less overall damage to lakes, streams, and coastal waters.

LID is economical.

If designed correctly it can costs less than conventional stormwater management systems to construct and maintain.

LID is flexible.

It offers a wide variety of structural and non-structural techniques to provide for both runoff quality and quantity benefits.

LID is practical.

It reduces the need for large, unsightly land consuming detention basins.

Workshops Instructors

Scott Horsley

Scott Horsley has 25 years experience in site and land use planning. He has been an innovator in the development of Smart Growth and LID techniques. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Inter-American Development Bank, the States of Hawaii and Massachusetts, and numerous local governments and private organizations throughout the United States and abroad. He is coauthor of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Toolkit, and is an instructor for an LID certification course.

Richard Claytor, P.E.

Rich Claytor is a Professional Engineer with more than 24 years of practical experience in civil engineering planning and design, construction administration, and LID design. He has authored a variety of publications on stormwater design and implementation, including one of the first LID design manuals. He has presented at more than 100 training workshops and conferences. Rich coauthored the model LID bylaw in the Smart Growth Toolkit and works with numerous clients integrating LID into site design.

The LID Brochure PDF, .5 Mb