Just to give you a tiny bit of helpful content this month, we have been reading about low-impact development. When I first heard this term, developers thought that it meant only that stormwater drainage off of parking lots and such should be directed into retention islands lying below the grade of the parking surface instead of diverting it around mounded dividers between rows. But now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has adopted a much more expansive definition. If you haven't caught up, enjoy reading these resource pieces from EPA:

For example, here's a short publication about how barriers to more LID adoption can be addressed.

We liked the publication about LID for builders that we saw recently.

This EPA paper about nonpoint source pollution in urban areas also gives some great insight.

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