the cermak/blue island sustainable streetscape

The Cermak / Blue Island Sustainable Streetscape

Sustainable Streets for Chicagoland: Multi-Modal, Multi-Functional,

and Totally Fabulous

Richard M. Daley, Mayor

City of Chicago

Janet L. Attarian, AIA, LEED, Project Director

Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program

Infrastructure and Cities

• Infrastructure in Poor Condition

• Direct Effect on Behavior

• Large Capital Projects with a Long Design Life

• 50% Population Threshold

Other

9%

Transportation

30%Buildingsand OtherEnergy Uses

61%

Chicago Climate Action Plan: Adaptation and Mitigation

Source: CCAP

Sustainable Urban Design

• In addition, there are 839 acres of public park space and 53.4 miles of lake and river frontage.

• City governments are at the forefront of sustainable design, and have an obligation to make cities livable places where people want to live, work and play.

• Chicago Land Area = 144,593 acPublic Right-of-Way (23%)

Complete Streets Policy

“The safety and convenience of all users of the transportation system including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, freight, and motor vehicle drivers shall be

accommodated and balanced in all types of transportation and development projects and through

all phases of a project so that even the most vulnerable – children, elderly, and persons with disabilities – can

travel safely within the public right of way.”

Mayor’s Pedestrian Advisory Council

Pedestrian Plan Mayor Daley’s Safe Routes

Ambassadors Pedestrian Crash Analysis CMAQ School and Transit Station Improvement projects

How Complete is your Street?

•Stormwater Management

•Energy Efficiency

•Water Efficiency

•Alternative Transportation

•Recycling

•Urban Heat Island

•Education

•Beauty and Community

•Site Selection

•Air Quality

Green Alley Program

• 1,900 miles of public alleyways in Chicago, the largest of any city in the world.

• Total of 3,500 acres of impermeable surface, the equivalent area of over 5 Midway

Airports.

Total: 13,000 Alleys

• 20% Currently Unimproved

• 20% in Need of Repairs

Alley Summary

Green Alley Program

Green Alley Program

Development of Permeable Asphalt and Concrete:

•Best Practices

•Material Testing

•Trial Batches

•Recycled Content- Slag/GTRThe Ground Tire Rubber Solution:

•Approx 600 tires recycled per alley

•Solved cohesion problem

Green Alley Program – Installation Testing

Wider Implementation

Permeable ParkwaysPermeable Ward Yard

Permeable Pocket Parks

Wider Implementation

WPA Street Reconstruction – Permeable Asphalt Parking Lanes

Incorporation into Standard Streetscape Designs

Devon Avenue Streetscape Construction May 2009

Maxwell Street Permeable Market Plaza

Maxwell Street Permeable Market Plaza

EPA Primary Research Questions

•Runoff Volume and Rate

•Surface Water Quality

•Ground Water Quality

•Freeze/Thaw Performance

Market Plaza: Preliminary Monitoring Results

Sept 2008- Feb 2009

1/16/09 (temp in degrees)Air: -7.0

Deep: 38.6Middle: 34.1Shallow: 33.4

Sustainable Streetscape Demonstration ProjectThe Cermak / Blue Island Streetscape

Existing Conditions- Cermak Road

Existing Conditions- Blue Island Avenue

Stormwater Management

• 100% diversion from the combined sewer for a two year storm event1. Pervious pavements

2. Bioswales in bump-outs

3. New planter and street tree designs

4. Bioswale Parkways

Energy Efficiency

• 0% Light pollution into night sky

• Improve energy performance above baseline streetscape

1. Utilize LED Pedestrian fixtures

2. White Light, Metal Halide Technology

3. Pavement Reflectance / Uniformity

Water Efficiency

• Limit use of potable water for landscape irrigation

1. Recycle stormwater/roof water for irrigation of planters or water feature

Alternative Transportation

• Design facilities for pedestrians and cyclists

• Improve access to public transportation

• Provide additional bike parking

Recycling

• Recycle a minimum of 90% construction waste

• Install total materials which contain a minimum 10% recycled content

Urban Heat Island Reduction

• Increase pavement reflectance of both the roadway and sidewalk

• Utilize Permeable pavements

• Increase tree canopy cover

• Increase landscaped surfaces

Education

•Partnerships with Benito Juarez High School for science and engineering curriculum

•Education Seminar

•Self-guided walking tour brochure

•Informational kiosks/identifiers with interpretive graphics

Beauty and Community

•Human Scale

•Education

•Significant elements of life through all major spaces of the project

•Celebrate culture, history, spirit and place

•Western Stormwater Plaza

•Benito Juarez Water Feature

Site Selection

•The Chicago Nature and Wildlife Plan

•Reuse of existing roadwayAcres Habitat

•1772 Forest/Woodland

•982 Aquatic

•535 Wetland

•290 Ripirian/Water Edge

•170 Prairie/Grassland

•36 Savanna

•22 Dune

•8 Naturalistic Planting

•921 Potential Habitat

Air Quality

•Construction Equipment Emissions

•Biodiesel/ Ultra Low Sulfur Fuels

•Anti-Idling Policies

•Local Materials: Sourcing 40% of products within 500 Miles

•Dust Control

•Photocatalytic Cements

Source: OMP

Cermak/Blue Island Sustainable Streetscape

Synergies in Roadway Design


•Waste Management

•Air Quality

•Site Selection

•Beauty and

Community


•Water Management

•Water Efficiency


•Waste Management

•Air Quality

•Site Selection

•Beauty and

Community


•Water Management

•Water Efficiency

Integrated Infrastructure Design Example: Permeable Pavers in Parking/Bike Lane

Bike/ Parking

Lane

High SRI for

Lighting and UHI

Stormwater Managemen

t

Photocatalytic for Air Quality

•Reduced Pedestrian Crossing Distances

•Opportunities for Landscaped beautification

•Best management practice

•Discourage truck access to residential blocks to the North

Integrated Infrastructure Design Example: Side Street Pedestrian Bump-Outs

•Stormwater Management

•Pedestrian Buffer

•Landscaped beautification

•Urban Heat Island Reduction

•Water quality

•Reduction in potable water use

Integrated Infrastructure Design Example: Parkway Bioswale

Changing Business as Usual

•Determining what city standards and requirements may be in conflict with sustainable design concepts

•Working with city departments and sister agencies to approve construction drawings

•Working with city departments and utilities to determine unique maintenance responsibilities

•Outreach to the community in order to communicate unique infrastructure design and maintenance requirements

Monitoring

•Making the case for sustainable design

•Determining actual maintenance needs

•Continuous learning and improvement

•Critical link for turning pilots to programs

Green Alleys: Permeability, Albedo, Surface Temperature, Strength

Maxwell Street Market Permeable Plaza: Partnership with EPA to measure suitability of stormwater BMPs on brownfield sites.

Sustainable Streetscape: Monitoring Partnership with MWRD / Essroc

Local, National, and International Standards for Sustainable Infrastructure

•LEED ND as a starting place

•Sustainable Site Initiative

•Green Streets “LEED for Roads”

•Unique needs and potential of InfrastructureNeed to be based

on Industry Standards

New Markets and Material Development:

Creating Innovation for the Environment

•Lead by Example

•Partner with the Private Sector

•Connect to the Community

•Design/Contractor/Owner Education

“..green is not about cutting back. It’s about creating a new cornucopia of abundance for the next generation by inventing a

whole new industry. It’s about getting our best brains out of hedge funds and into innovations that will not only give us the

clean-power industrial assets to preserve our American dream but also give us the technologies that billions of others need to realize

their own dreams without destroying the planet.” –Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

Stimulating New Jobs with Green Infrastructure

For every 1.25 Billion spent…

Source: FHWA Jobs Decoder

New Infrastructure

Infrastructure

RehabilitationGreen

Infrastructure

51,200 jobs

47,000 jobs

43,200 jobs

Ending Business as Usual:

Responsibility for the Biosphere

Janet L. Attarian, AIA LEED | Project Director | [email protected]

Streetscape and Sustainable Design Program | 312-744-5900

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