Green Girl Land Development Solutions LLC
Cost-Effective Stormwater Infrastructure
that meets your permit requirements and makes healthier communities
The Parking Forest Best Management Practice at Portland Community College increases urban canopy in an existing parking lot without losing precious parking spaces. Infiltration occurs across a subsurface trench 3 times wider than the 4 feet visible at the surface, making this an effective runoff reduction technique in slow draining clay soils. As the trees grow, interception and evaporation will play an ever-increasing role in runoff reduction. During the remodeling of the historic Ford Building in Coos Bay, OR , the developer chose to remove parking spaces to make room for outdoor seating (background) and a functional landscape that manages runoff in a rain garden (foreground). Photo courtesy of GG LDS client, Sol Coast. Buchannan Cellars in McMinnville, OR employed pervious concrete for pavement areas and rainwater harvesting, swales, and a rain garden to manage roof runoff. Photo courtesy of GG LDS client, Margaret Buchannan.
Green Girl Land Development Solutions LLC is a consulting firm that provides technical assistance and training on stormwater management to jurisdictions and private development teams throughout the west coast and Hawaii. Armed with the latest science and deep experience implementing best management practices, Green Girl LDS creates healthier communities using low impact development (aka green infrastructure) to improve water quality from existing, redeveloped, and newly developing sites in towns and cities.
Whether you are building a real world project or want to educate others, Green Girl LDS can help you and your stakeholders.
Reduce up-front construction and/or long-term maintenance costs
Simplify the permit process at the site scale (i.e. grading permit, UICs) and jurisdictional scale (i.e. NPDES MS4 permittees, TMDL regulations)
Devise creative solutions for your water-related problems (from site drainage and water quality treatment facilities to regional flooding and drought)
Collaborate across disciplines
Build the technical knowledge and confidence of a variety of stakeholders with enlightening active trainings, outreach materials, and on-the-job trainings that demystify low impact development implementation.
Incorporate the triple bottom line by cost effectively investing in people empowered to make positive steps forward on your project in your community
Green Girl LDS is a certified Oregon Women Business Enterprise.
Mission Statement
To reduce the impact of land development by assisting teams and communities in the application of sustainable site planning, design, construction, and maintenance principles that results in improved water quality for everyone.
Green Girl LDS is dedicated to building community and addressing equity and is a proud member of the Oregon Association for Minority Entrepreneurs (OAME), an all-inclusive non-profit "to promote minority entrepreneurship and economic development in the State of Oregon".
Core Values

Conventional land design and construction practices typically destroy biodiversity; contaminate the air, water, and land; and increase greenhouse gas emissions directly on-site to impact off-site resources even further.

We cannot go for a few weeks without food, a few days without water, or a few minutes without air - these are the basis of survival and represent basic rights for all. Clean land, water, and air need not be sacrificed for the creation of shelter and convenience.
Thanks to Clients in 2014!

Every year, instead of sending a material thank you gift to clients, I donate $10/client (this year, $170) to a non-profit organization. This year the organization is Oregon Websites & Watershed Project , Inc for work on their Alberta Street Project with World Arts Foundation.  The project will provide local African American students with meaningful employment, current technical and communication skills, and a valuable network of local business and community leaders as they create the "2015 Alberta Street Cultural Resource Inventory with Recommendations." For more info or to help fund this project yourself, contact Bob Zybach ( 541.767.3087)!

MY GREAT GRATITUDE GOES OUT TO MY CLIENTS!

Thank you to my 2014 clients in Oregon, Washington, & Hawaii. Clients hired me to help them with projects, education, or outreach:

  • Oregon Environmental Council
  • West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District
  • Southwest Neighborhoods Inc
  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Portland, OR
  • Hui o Ko’olaupoko, Kailua, HI
  • City of Newberg, OR
  • City of Central Point, OR
  • City of Gresham, OR
  • Oregon State University Extension
  • Susan Weedall, Portland, OR
  • Granshaw-Colemans, Portland, OR
  • The numerous individuals who attended my workshops

And, thank you to the organizations who supported 3 or more folks to participate in my workshops:

  • City of Lake Oswego, OR
  • Kitsap County, WA
  • Jackson County, OR
  • City of Keizer, OR
  • Department of Environmental Quality, OR

This year, I have some extra thanks because my work on the Western Oregon LID Guidance Template (http://oeconline.org/lidmanual/ ) has been supported through grants and donations to the Oregon Environmental Council:

  • City of Central Point
  • City of Coburg
  • City of Coos Bay
  • City of Cottage Grove
  • City of Keizer
  • City of Medford
  • CH2M Hill
  • Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Rogue Valley Sewer Services
  • City of Veneta

 
Green Girl Land Development Solutions LLC provides information for educational and outreach purposes only, to enhance the sustainability of sites. Unless adopted by the appropriate registered professional under contract, information provided is not for construction.
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Updated 9 Jan 2015