Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure practices are urban stormwater management techniques that rely on natural systems to retain more stormwater on-site through infiltration, evapotranspiration and harvesting for reuse. Implementing green infrastructure practices helps attenuate nutrients and other pollutants and reduce runoff volumes and peak flows.

Green infrastructure also offers additional valuable community benefits not provided by conventional infrastructure, such as groundwater recharge, runoff volume reduction, improved air quality, temperature moderation and energy cost savings, increased open space for recreation and wildlife habitat and increased land values. Green infrastructure can be applied on the site, neighborhood, or regional scales.

The City of Urbana supports green infrastructure and encourages developers to include green infrastructure in their development plans. Please see the attached Green Infrastructure Guiide below for green infrastructure ideas and information.