Green Infrastructure Plan

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The purpose of this Green Infrastructure Plan is to guide the identification, implementation, tracking, and reporting of green infrastructure projects within the City of Berkeley.

“Green infrastructure” refers to a sustainable system that slows runoff by dispersing it to vegetated areas, harvests and uses runoff, promotes infiltration and evapotranspiration, and/or uses bioretention and other low impact development practices to improve the water quality of stormwater runoff.