Description

The City of Emeryville has earned a national reputation as a pioneer in reclaiming, remediating, and redeveloping its decaying industrial lands through a massive brownfields pilot program. Through an EPA grant, the City addressed its next challenge – to meet new standards for water quality and improve the general environmental sustainability of continued revitalization efforts. To realize this goal for the city, CD+A and a multidisciplinary team created the Emeryville Green Redevelopment Guidelines, stormwater quality solutions geared specifically to developers and designers.

The guidelines introduce and integrate green stormwater treatment into the site planning and building design of new development and provides additional efficiencies in development from pedestrian-friendly parking strategies. The parking and green design solutions range from shared district parking facilities to green roofs to containerized rain gardens and all account for Emeryville’s unique context of heavily urbanized sites, compacted and/or contaminated soils, and a high water table.

The document also includes a thorough numeric sizing methodology for various green infrastructure facility types that will enable City staff, planners, designers, and developers to implement sustainable design on many scales throughout Emeryville and attract new opportunities for research, economic, and housing development.