Item A: Low Impact Development: Results of Review

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?Modest incentives for increasing LID practices currently exist; more substantive incentives may be feasible with commitment of additional resources. ?Barriers to increasing use of LID practices generally include competing demands for resources, complexities of implementing changes to regulations and existing programs, and challenges to balancing and integrating LID objectives with other City initiatives and priorities. Table A within Attachment A summarizes areas of review with moderate to high potential for increasing use of LID practices for stormwater management. Because LID includes principles of an integrated site design approach, it can have broad implications and complex inter-relationships to other community standards and objectives beyond stormwater management, affecting other land use and development standards. Due in part to these inter- relationships, opportunities likely to have the greatest overall potential for increasing use of LID have significant barriers to their implementation, such as substantial complexities of modifying land use regulations, competing objectives, and resource requirements. However, a number of opportunities to better encourage, integrate and improve LID implementation have relatively minor barriers. Staff can proceed to implement some administrative adjustments not requiring policy direction or requiring significant change to resource allocation. Additional integration of LID practices with other existing initiatives and program development efforts may also be feasible. Using LID objectives as a screening and filtering mechanism, along with other objectives, when evaluating the effects of code and policy change may assist in incrementally increasing LID implementation. The primary policy issue emerging from this review is the degree to which to further pursue increased use of LID practices considering relative priorities for pursuit of other council priorities and initiatives. Should council direct that elements of the land use code be considered for modification to further use of LID practices, staff recommends that, as an initial step in the process, development of proposed changes be considered in the context of the Planning Division Work Plan and Planning Commission priorities for land use code amendments. RELATED CITY POLICIES In completing the review it was noted that increasing use of LID practices is aligned with a number of existing City plans and policies including the Metro Plan Facilities and Services element, the Comprehensive Storm Water Management Plan, Stormwater Basin Plans, and Growth Management Policies 9 and 17. COUNCIL OPTIONS Direct the City Manager to move forward with efforts to increase implementation of LID practices through: A.Administrative adjustments and additional integration of LID practices with other existing priorities and initiatives; or, B.Administrative adjustments, additional integration of LID practices with other initiatives, and development of proposals for land use code amendments; or, C.Administrative adjustments, additional integration of LID practices with other initiatives, development of proposals for land use code amendments, and development of proposals for other program enhancements. Z:\CMO\2008 Council Agendas\M080917\S080917A.doc