The Denver Green Continuum: Streets (Continuum: Streets) guidelines are designed expand the extent and rate of implementation of green infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of the increasingly warming climate and protect Denver’s high quality of life. These guidelines provide a more robust, versatile, and practical set of GI tools and solutions that are applicable to all types of city streets and conditions. The Continuum: Streets focuses on strategies that can manage stormwater and cool city streets while providing additional co-benefits.
The Continuum: Streets does this by defining five levels of green that range from simply adding vegetation with proper growing conditions to streetscapes, to planting trees in sunken landscapes, to fully engineered stormwater quality planters that store regulatory water quality volumes. By offering a greater suite of green infrastructure practices, Denver can more rapidly implement green infrastructure solutions. The Continuum: Streets is a companion document to the Denver Complete Streets Design Guidelines. While this document focuses on streets and the public right-of-way, the practices detailed within can be implemented on both public and private spaces.
Denver Green Continuum: Streets(PDF, 14MB)
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