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• Promote pedestrian and bicyclist connectivity site as quickly as possible. Practices involving LID
and access to and within existing recreation areas tend to slow the movement of stormwater, and
in Pottawatomie County. Although the County are intended to prevent more stormwater from
itself does not currently have a Parks department leaving the site than before development.
or role, it can work to ensure that access and
connectivity to recreational resources is available • Utilizing LID techniques, pursue regional
stormwater facilities with joint-use benefits such
and safe.
as recreation and trails within the stormwater
• Promote the use of low impact development facility.
strategies, tools, and techniques to restore • Coordinate the Green Valley Area Plan’s Park and
pre-development hydrology for all new Recreation Strategies with the Comprehensive
development areas. Part of a larger practice Plan. The Green Valley Area Plan will explore
of sustainability, low impact development what the park and recreational needs are for
techniques reduce the strain on the environment County residents in the fast-growing Green
that a typical development can produce, Valley area (also referred to as the Blue Township
especially dealing with stormwater management. Area.) If services not currently provided by the
The main premise of low impact development, County are identified (such as provision of local
or LID, is to mimic a site’s predevelopment parks), the County should seek implementation
hydrology by using design techniques that strategies.
infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain
runoff close to its source. A typical development
will deal with stormwater by trying to direct it off
90 | Plan Pottawatomie County 2040 Adopted - August 19, 2019
