Low Impact Development is an ecologically-friendly approach to site development and storm water management that aims to mitigate development impacts to land, water, and air. The approach emphasizes the integration of site design and planning techniques that conserve natural systems and hydrologic functions on a site. The goals of low impact development include:
(a) Incorporating natural topographic features (wetlands, stream corridors, mature forests) and constraints in site design;
(b) Maintaining site hydrologic functions and mitigate impacts to such functions;
(c) Providing alternative layout and sizing of traditional site;
(d) Maintaining the total number of buildable lots within a development (lot yield);
(e) Customizing infrastructure (lots, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks) to each site;
(f) Decentralizing and Micro-management stormwater at its source.; and
(g) Providing aesthetically pleasing stormwater management controls