Green Infrastructure

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Green Infrastructure

• Planning for working landscapes, natural
  resources and other open spaces

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Green Infrastructure

• Green infrastructure is our nations natural
  life support system an interconnected network
  of waterways, wetlands, woodlands, wildlife
  habitats and other natural areas greenways,
  parks and other conservation lands working
  farms, ranches and forests and wilderness and
  other open spaces that support native species,
  maintain natural ecological processes, sustain
  air and water resources and contribute to the
  health and quality of life for Americas
  communities and people
• Green Infrastructure Work Group

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Green Building

• Green building or green design is building design
  that yields environmental benefits, such as
  savings in energy, building materials, and water
  consumption, or reduced waste generation.

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Examples of Green Infrastructure

• Public open space parks, greenways
• Private open space farm fields, vineyards,
  orchards, woodlots, lakes
• Both publicly and privately owned open space
  contributes to our perception of the balance
  between open space and developed land

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History, Continued

• Green infrastructure is a part of quality of life
  and rural landscapes
• Usually excluded from plans and is land just
  waiting to be developed

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Why is Green Infrastructure Important?
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Builds our Sense of Place

• Think about a place or community you feel
  attached to what makes it unique? What do you
  like about it?

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Sense of Place

• Helps us define quality of life
• Helps us define community
• Facilitates and contains the activities that
  create community
• Defines the visual character of rural working
  landscapes
• Vegetation and open space have a quieting effect

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Green Infrastructure Enhances Property Values

• Monon Trail and other greenways in Indianapolis
  have increased value of homes (CUPE study)
• Average premium paid for house within ½ mile of
  greenway trail 4,384.
• Average premium paid for house within ½ mile of
  conservation corridor 5,317.

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Green Infrastructure Provides Economic Benefits

• Owners of small businesses rank recreation, parks
  and open space as the highest priority in
  choosing a location for their new business
  (Crompton, 1997)
• 1999 Economic Impact of Open Space in New
  Hampshire study shows that each acre of open
  space provides 1500 of economic benefit to the
  state and communities

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Further Information

• Purdue Land Use Team http//www.ces.purdue.edu/lan
  duse/
• Linda Prokopy, lprokopy_at_purdue.edu, 765-496-2221
• Presentation developed by
• Linda Prokopy, Jon Cain, Bernie Dahl, Bill
  Hoover, Bob McCormick, Brian Miller

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Local Decision Maker

• http//ldm.agriculture.purdue.edu

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Contact Information
For more information on Planning with POWER or to
schedule a program contact
Bob McCormick rmccormi_at_purdue.edu [phone]
195 Marsteller Forestry and Natural
Resources West Lafayette, IN 47907 Fax
765-496-6026
http//planningwithpower.org