Sustainable Design / Green Design
 LEED® Implementations for Site Development:
- Reduce environmental impacts from development, both during and after construction
- Protect existing environmentally sensitive areas and enhance habitat areas
- Use existing site characteristics to guide development
- Minimize post-development run-off effects on the environment
- Limit disturbance to maximize natural areas and open space
- Use native plantings to reduce or eliminate the need for irrigation
- Use site structures for maximum energy efficiency
- Use orientation of site structures to maximize energy efficiency
- Provide in-fill and brownfields development
- Provide site environmental remediation and mitigation
- Maximize alternative accessibility to reduce reliance on automobiles
- Conserve/reuse water
- Use recycled materials
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