Green Infrastructure for Desert Communities

This manual provides guidelines and best practices for retrofitting neighborhood streets, open spaces, rightof-ways, and parking lots with green infrastructure. This guide draws on Watershed Management Group’s experience working with landowners, neighborhoods, and local governments to install GI in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Design specifics are given only for conceptual understanding, and will always require adaptation to local site conditions and government regulations.

This manual provides guidelines and best practices for retrofitting neighborhood streets, open spaces, rightof-ways, and parking lots with green infrastructure. This guide draws on Watershed Management Group’s experience working with landowners, neighborhoods, and local governments to install GI in the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico. Design specifics are given only for conceptual understanding, and will always require adaptation to local site conditions and government regulations.

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