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Environmentalists Champion Low Impact Design CrusadeAt first glance, there's little special about the parking lot at The Florida Aquarium.
But the signs placed along the path to the aquarium's front door make it clear the lot is more than just another 10 acres of asphalt. The parking lot was designed a decade ago to capture and treat storm runoff before that pollution reached Tampa Bay.
The aquarium lot is an example of low-impact design - a development philosophy that aims to improve water quality by using plants, porous pavement and other tools to absorb pollutants such as nitrogen, micro-organisms and car drippings.
Low-impact advocates, such as Pasco County environmentalist Jennifer Seney, would like to see the aquarium parking become the model for future parking throughout the region - starting with the Cypress Creek Town Center slated for Wesley Chapel.
Seney, president of Pascowildlife Inc., has organized a daylong program at the aquarium Friday aimed at teaching developers and regulators what low-impact design is and how to make it work.
"The developers are beginning to realize that if they don't start taking a look at these things and being articulate about them, they're going to pay the price," Seney said as she and a volunteer prepared for the seminar, stuffing binders at her Quail Hollow home.
That price will be greater flooding and devastate
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