U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region
7
11201 Renner Boulevard, Lenexa, KS
66219
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine
Tribal Nations
EPA Region 7 to Provide Details about Green
Infrastructure Assistance for City of Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday, Dec.
10
Contact Information: Kris Lancaster,
913-551-7557, lancaster.kris@epa.gov
Environmental News
NEWS MEDIA
ADVISORY
(Lenexa, Kan., Dec. 6, 2012) - EPA Region 7
Administrator Karl Brooks and Des Moines Mayor T.M. Franklin Cownie will hold a
news conference Monday, Dec. 10, to provide details about green infrastructure
assistance for Des Moines, Iowa. EPA will provide design assistance from
private-sector experts to help Des Moines demonstrate sustainable city planning
designs that create vibrant neighborhoods with multiple social, economic,
environmental, and public health benefits.
The focus of the project is a proposed
streetscape plan for a one-mile segment of Sixth Avenue. The Sixth Avenue
Corridor serves as the northern gateway to the city’s downtown, and is an
official Main Street Iowa Urban Neighborhood District and has direct access to
the Des Moines River. The city plans to use the Sixth Avenue project to guide
designs for other planned streetscape improvements throughout the
community.
A team
of designers and landscape architects that specialize in green infrastructure
approaches will produce schematic designs and illustrations during a three-day
design workshop that will take place in Des Moines early next year.
Additionally, this project could be the testing ground for other city actions,
such as changes to local codes and ordinances to better support sustainable
growth and green building.
WHAT:
News conference on green infrastructure assistance for Des
Moines
WHEN:
10:45 a.m., Dec. 10, 2012
WHERE:
City Council Chambers, City Hall, 400 Robert Ray Drive, Des Moines, Iowa
50309
WHO:
EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks and Des Moines Mayor T.M. Franklin
Cownie
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