[CPEO-BIF] Headwaters at Tryon Creek, Southwest Portland, Oregon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former brownfield a national model
Headwaters serves as pilot to test LEED-style rating system for  
landscaping

BY ELLEN SPITALERI, Pamplin Media Group
Portland Tribune (OR)
August 18, 2011

If the term "housing development" conjures up a vision of ticky-tacky  
houses, then The Headwaters at Tryon Creek in Southwest Portland will  
come as a pleasant surprise.

The mix of apartments and townhomes features green roofs, rain  
gardens and other ecofriendly landscaping, earning the public-private  
development’s recent selection as a model program for the Sustainable  
Sites Initiative. The initiative is laying the groundwork for the  
first national rating system for sustainable landscapes, similar to  
the Green Building Council's LEED ratings for building design, says  
Jim Lapides, public relations manager of the American Society of  
Landscape Architects.

Headwaters, a cooperative endeavor between a private developer,  
several Portland bureaus and a nonprofit group, includes some  
"fantastic sustainable features," Lapides says. "More importantly,  
the project applies these sustainable strategies to a former  
brownfield site - revitalizing the land and restoring the watershed."

...

For the entire article, see
http://portlandtribune.com/sustainable/story.php? 
story_id=131343729273001400

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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