STORM WATER RUNOFF &

PHILADELPHIA PARKING

Planning Session

October 25, 2012

Agenda • Welcome / Aging Infrastructure and Transformative Opportunity Paul Wessel, Green Parking Council • Introductions • The Green Parking Council & the Philadelphia Opportunity Rachel Yoka, Timothy Haahs & Associates • Philadelphia's new parcel-based stormwater fee and third- party investment in stormwater retrofits Alisa Valderrama, Natural Resources Defense Council • Collaborative Opportunities Mark Gander, AECOM • Discussion • Moving forward?

Rachel

Yoka

Timothy Haahs &

Associates

Green Garage

Certification

Program Update

Rachel Yoka

Certification & the GPC

Vision

• Create a new rating system that

will transform the parking

industry

• Address a critical void in the

green building marketplace

Operating Philosophy

• Collaborative

• Volunteer driven

• Open source

• Ready for challenge, revision,

adaptation, growth,

transformation

Current Framework

• Organized for both new and existing structured

facilities

– LEED/GG may apply to new

– Addressing existing critical to success

• Meaningful, with enough “teeth”, yet

achievable with commitment

– “Excessive burden” of LEED

Overarching strategies

Increase:

1. Committed & educated leadership

2. Transportation alternatives

3. Energy efficiency

4. Use of renewable energy

5. Support for rating systems

6. Community & vitality

Decrease:

1. Carbon emissions & pollution

2. Waste generation

3. Harmful chemical use

4. Potable water use

5. Cost

Structure and Organization Life Cycle Assessment

Transportation Management Association

Parking Pricing

Shared Parking

Placemaking

Rideshare

Alternative Fuel

Vehicles

Carshare

Traffic Flow Plan

Bicycle Parking

Energy Efficient Lighting

Lighting Controls

Parking Guidance Systems

EV Charging Stations

Indoor Water Efficiency

Rainwater Harvesting

Water Efficient Landscaping

Greywater Reuse

Today’s Opportunity

• Application of certification strategies to

Philadelphia’s parking industry – both surface

and structured assets

• Generate business opportunities, decrease

operational costs, and do the right thing

• Lead the market in innovation and creativity

Unique Philly Opportunity

• Parking is part of the solution, rather than the problem

• Focus on voluntary efforts to improve facilities

• Support &

• Collaboration opportunity versus adversarial relationship

• Recasting of relationship as private AND public parking

facilities

Alisa

Valderrama

NRDC

Drawing Private Capital to Green Infrastructure October 2012

Presented by:

Alisa Valderrama

Natural Resources Defense Council

Overview

• Deploying green infrastructure at a citywide or regional scale can help meet

Clean Water Act goals for stormwater (MS4) and sewage overflows (CSOs).

• Major, long-term investment is required to green the existing built environment

in our cities.

• Need to take advantage of both public and private funding sources.

• Cities can leverage private investment through policies that:

(i) Establish design/performance standards for redevelopment projects;

(ii) Drive private property owners to retrofit existing developed parcels; and

(iii) Create or enhance opportunities for private capital to underwrite up-front

costs of retrofits.

• With appropriate public policy and financial toolkits, private capital investment

can enable and accelerate green infrastructure retrofits.

• Philadelphia provides an excellent test case!

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Philadelphia’s Green City Clean Waters Plan

• Relies on green infrastructure for a majority of the required reductions in sewage

overflows

• City can claim credit for “greened acres” on private property:

• Greened acres through redevelopment standards

• Greened acres through voluntary retrofits on existing developments

• Stormwater fees and credits incentivize private property owners to retrofit

existing development

Philadelphia’s parcel-based stormwater rate

structure

• Previous stormwater fee based on water usage (measured by water meter)

• New fee based on: impervious surface area + gross area + min. parcel charge:

For fiscal year 2014 (proposed):

Impervious area= $4.50 per 500 sf

Gross area rate= $0.56 per 500 sf

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The new fee structure may also improve the

“financeability” of green infrastructure retrofits:

• Substantial discount on fee available for owners who manage first inch of

stormwater on their parcel.

• Parcel owners need to re-apply for the credit every four years.

• Over time, retrofits will pay for themselves through avoided stormwater fees.

Example: Under Philadelphia’s current rate and fee, for example, project costs

should fall below $36,000 per acre ($0.82 per square foot) if the project is to pay

back within 10 years.

Limited data to generalize about retrofit costs

Value of credit will go up over time as stormwater rates increase

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Many parcel owners lack the cash to pay the upfront

costs of retrofits and will likely seek financing

• Traditional financing mechanisms are likely unavailable because of:

Existing leverage on assets and lack of collateral

No track record of repayment for such loans

• As a result, many property owners are unable to respond to the incentives created

by the credit and fee structure

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NatLab: Innovative Financing for Stormwater Retrofits s

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The Natural Infrastructure Financing

Lab (NatLab) is a partnership

between the NRDC, EKO Asset

Management, and The Nature

Conservancy

Sponsorship

Goal

Pilot Project

Develop innovative strategies for

financing conservation and green

infrastructure

Focus on deployment of green

infrastructure (“GI”) solutions for

storm-water management in

Philadelphia

Looking Ahead…

Large scale potential for private investment in green infrastructure retrofits

• Nationwide:

o About 1,000 communities already have impervious area-based stormwater fees;*

many of those offer credits for property retrofits that reduce runoff

o 770 CSO communities, over 7,000 MS4 communities

• Philadelphia is an incubator for green infrastructure financing ideas

o Philadelphia has one of the most enticing stormwater fee reductions available

o NatLab (Natural Infrastructure Financing Laboratory)

NRDC, TNC, & EKO Asset Management Partners

Working with the City to develop and implement financing strategies

*http://www.wku.edu/engineering/civil/fpm/swusurvey/

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Report Links and Contacts

Contacts:

Alisa Valderrama | Senior Project Finance Attorney, Center for Market Innovation

Office: 212-727-4438 | 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

avalderrama@nrdc.org | www.nrdc.org

Lawrence Levine | Senior Attorney, Water Program

Office: 212-727-4548 | 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

llevine@nrdc.org | www.nrdc.org

Report Links:

Financing Stormwater Retrofits in Philadelphia and Beyond

http://www.nrdc.org/water/files/StormwaterFinancing-report.pdf

Rooftops to Rivers II: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer

Overflows

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/rooftopsii/files/rooftopstoriversII.pdf

Mark

Gander

AECOM

Stormwater Retrofits

Embedding Sustainability Principles

into Practice

Mark Gander, Director

What is an AECOM?

• Work in 130 countries at the moment

• 45,000 employees of which 35% are US based

• 356 in the Forbes 500

• $8.1 B revenue in last fiscal year

• Architecture, planning, economics, engineering, construction

management, transportation, energy, water, government services,

etc.

The Numbers

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• An operating philosophy

• A point of view

• A service we provide our clients

• Something for which we advocate

How we think about sustainability

Sustainability is about managing

complexity in ways that increase value

and reduce risk.

Why it matters so much to us…

It is About the Soil …

Why Green Infrastructure?

Natural Watershed

Typical Urban Watershed

EVAPORATION

40%

INFILTRATION

50%

RUNOFF

10%

Note: These percentages vary by watershed depending on local conditions: climate, soils, vegetation, topography, etc.

RUNOFF

75%

EVAPORATION

15%

INFILTRATION

10%

Pump Stations Outfall Retrofit/

Replacement Transport/Storage

Structures

Pipe Upsizing/

Replacement

Tunnels

Constructed

Wetlands

Creek

Daylighting

Vegetated

Roof

Bioretention

Planter

Rainwater

Harvesting

Permeable

Paving

Typical Grey Infrastructure

Solutions

Pump Stations Outfall Retrofit/

Replacement Transport/Storage

Structures

Pipe Upsizing/

Replacement

Tunnels

Constructed

Wetlands

Creek

Daylighting

Vegetated

Roof Bioretention

Rainwater

Harvesting

Permeable

Paving

Potential Green

Infrastructure Solutions

Pump Stations Outfall Retrofit/

Replacement Transport/Storage

Structures

Pipe Upsizing/

Replacement

Tunnels

Constructed

Wetlands

Creek

Daylighting

Vegetated

Roof Bioretention

Rainwater

Harvesting

Permeable

Paving

Combined Gray and Green Infrastructure Solutions

Philadelphia

Decision Support Tool

Decision Support Tool

ArcGIS Based

Developed with

Microsoft Visual

Basic .NET

27 indicators

considered

User-defined

analysis areas

User-defined

weighting factors

All data included

in Geodatabase

Prioritization Process

NFIP Claims

Risk Deciles

HAZUS AAL

Sediment

Loading

Phosphorous

Loading

Nitrogen

Loading

Percent

Stream Miles

Impaired

Percent

Stream Miles

w/ TMDL

Prioritization

FLOODING

Prioritization

WATER

QUALITY

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

% %

Erosion

Potential %

Comprehensive Prioritization

Example Water

Quality Input Data Example Flooding

Input data

100% 100%

User

Input

Weight

User

Input

Weight

User

Input

Weight

User

Input

Weight

Percent

Impervious

Population

Density

Percent

Wetlands

Percent Tree

Cover

Critical Habitat

Quality

Prioritization

WATERSHED

HEALTH

%

%

%

%

%

Example Watershed

Health Input Data

100%

User

Input

Weight

% User

Input

Weight

Population in

Floodplain %

Site Specific

Issues %

Site Specific

Issues %

Site Specific

Issues %

Results

San Francisco

Urban Watershed Approach

Urban Watershed Assessment Process

Watershed

Challenges &

Opportunities

Develop

Project

Alternatives

Evaluate

Project

Alternatives

Recommended

Implementatio

n Strategy

Project

Recommendations

Stakeholder Engagement

Balancing Grey and Green Infrastructure

Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Working Group

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Wastewater Enterprise

April 30, 2012

Financial (LCA)

Social

Environmental

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE (TBL) Evaluation Criteria Categories

Financial (LCA)

Capital Costs

Operating, Maintenance,

Replacement, and Avoided

Costs

Environmental

Climate

Habitat

Water Use

Water Quality

Air Quality

Natural Resource Inputs for

Construction Materials

Social

System Resilience

Ratepayer Affordability/Costs

Bicycle and Pedestrian

Environment

Odor

Noise

Recreation / Open Space

Employment/Jobs

Cultural /Historic Resources

Construction Impacts

TBL Evaluation Criteria (Key Performance Indicators)

Operations and maintenance

Replacement and renewal

Decommissioning

Use of alternate energy

Avoided water treatment

Avoided combined sewer discharge

Design and planning

Capital equipment

Installation and construction

Operating cost

Avoided cost

Capital cost

LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS (LCA)

TBL Model Framework

SMART Platforms for Monitoring and Measurement

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Data modeling and analytics to create

insights from data to feed decision support

and actions

Comparison of historical data,

with newly…. collected data…

Data Collection

Data Integration

PHYSICAL DOMAIN Inspections & Surveys

DIGITAL DOMAIN Remote Electronic Monitoring

Metering

Sensing Real Time

Data Integration

Real Time

and Historical

Data

Data Modeling

and Analytics

Visualization and

Decision Support

(Network Response,

prolong asset life,

optimize O&M, etc.)

The intersection of the ‘physical’ with the ‘digital’ creates SMARTer opportunities

Water Quality Monitoring

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Green Infrastructure Philosophy

Constructible

NJDOT Route 9,

Manalapan, New

Jersey

Durable

Santa Monica Streetscape

Retrofit, Santa Monica,

California

Maintainable North Side Piers,

Brooklyn, New

York

Compatible

Mullaly Park,

Bronx, New

York

Reproducible

Gempale Foshan,

Foshan, China

Artful

Drummoyne Oval,

New South Wales,

Visible

Southport Broadwater

Parklands, Southport,

Australia

Integrated Solutions

1. Concentration and typology aligned with appropriate

intervention

2. Focus on Lower Schuylkill District

EcoDistrict and Innovation District

Sunoco/Carlyle Group

Synergies and leverage with Navy Yard/Sports Complex

3. City just passed new zoning code

4. #1 issue in Central District is parking (type, location, quantity)

5. Strategic collaborations and opportunities

Considerations

Questions & Discussion