Carson City Low Impact Development Standards

Sec. 12.20.040 states that all development and redevelopment must satisfy low impact development standards. Sec. 12.20.010 defines low impact development to be a land development practice, modeled after nature, that improves and enhances water quality by reducing runoff and non-point source pollution through design techniques to mimic the pre-development hydrology of a site and effectively slow, capture, infiltrate, filter, detain, evaporate and hold runoff onsite. The term includes green infrastructure practices that use or mimic natural processes to infiltrate, evapotranspirate or reuse stormwater runoff onsite.