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What is your Green Infrastructure Vision for Tacoma?
Today The Future
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Tacoma Green Infrastructure Challenge City of Tacoma, Port of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Tacoma Green Infrastructure Challenge City of Tacoma, Port of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Tacoma Green Infrastructure Challenge City of Tacoma, Port of Tacoma, Metro Parks Tacoma, University of Washington Guided Site Visit November 13, 2014 What is your Green Infrastructure Vision for Tacoma? Today The Future 2 Goals &
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Goals & Requirements
- Protect & Improve Puget Sound
- Enhanced quality of life and reduce maintenance
- Increase marketability and property values.
- Traditional & green infrastructure cost comparison.
- Promote creativity and enhance site esthetics.
- Holistic sustainable design approach.
– Environment and Water – Access and Equity – Materials and Resources – Pavement Technologies
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Flett Creek
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Why YOU should participate!
- 1. Show off your innovative ideas and creative design skills!
- 2. Help demonstrate the economic, environmental and marketing
benefits of a sustainable site design.
- 3. Network with other Green Infrastructure professional and
interested students
- 4. Explore and learn about this emerging technology with actual
sites here in Tacoma.
$5,000 CASH PRIZE
For each Site
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Your Winning Team
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Licensed Professional
- Civil Engineer, Landscape
Architect or Geotechnical Engineer
Integrated Teams
- Construction, planning,
students, community
One Tacoma Member
- works, studies, lives or
plays here
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The Details
- Step 1 – Expert Judge Review
– Register by December 15th & Receive Challenge Updates – Submit Design by December 18th
- Step 2 – The Finals Jury Presentation
– Up to 3 teams per site – Present your design on March 7th – Win $5,000 & be featured in Tacoma’s Spotlight!
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Industrial Redevelopment
171 Taylor Way
- 20 acres
- Historical contamination
- Hylebos Waterway, Foss
Watershed Port Maritime Industrial
- Transportation related or
- Water-dependent use
50,000-100,000 sft Building
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Urban Redevelopment
SERA Campus
- Year Round Playability
- Fields will be replaced
to with synthetic turf.
- New & replaced parking
- Eliminate existing
detention pond
- Flow Control to Forested
Conditions
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Green Roadway
The South Tacoma Way Green Infrastructure Project is a streetscape project, which will enhance this business district from S 52nd Street to S 56th Street.
- South Tacoma Way Business District
- Greenscape & Tree Canopy
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- Road project, Flett
Creek Watershed
- S. Tacoma
Groundwater Protection District
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Conclusions
Form a Team Get Involved Be the Award Winning Team!
- Nov. 13th Industrial Site
- Nov. 18th South Tacoma Way
- Nov. 20th SERA Fields
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Green Infrastructure Challenge Information
- Google Group
– Find Team Members – Students?
– TGIChallenge@cityoftacoma.org
- Website
– www.cityoftacoma.org/TGIChallenge
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