Urban Form and Watershed Management: How Zoning Influences Residential Stormwater Volumes

Brian Stone and Jessica L Bullen
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Brian Stone: City and Regional Planning Program, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0155, USA
Jessica L Bullen: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Environment and Planning B, 2006, vol. 33, issue 1, 21-37

Abstract: This paper reports the results of a study on residential parcel design and development-induced stormwater runoff in the City of Madison, Wisconsin. To assess the influence of municipal zoning and subdivision regulations on residential stormwater production, high-resolution aerial photography and property tax data for over 38000 single-family residential parcels were used to measure the impervious cover and modeled runoff associated with a typical two-year storm. The results of the analysis suggest that stormwater runoff volumes could be significantly reduced with only modest changes to municipal land-development regulations and with no reduction in the size of the residential structure. Following the presentation of the methodology and findings, the paper concludes with a discussion of targeted revisions to zoning and subdivision regulations that, if implemented, could reduce the runoff volume from new residential parcels in Madison by over 30%.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1068/b31072

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