A STRATEGIC INITIATIVE OF THE COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Developed by ARLA and Spherical, the Living Infrastructure Field Kit is a free and user-friendly co-design tool and learning resource to help communities envision, plan, and apply for funding for multi-benefit projects.
TOOLS - Needs Assessment
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GIS-based (mapping) toolkits to help identify project opportunities, prioritize locations, and assess environmental and public health concerns.
CLIMATE SMART CITIES LOS ANGELES
The tool gives decision makers the ability to identify and prioritize locations, down to the parcel level, where nature-based green infrastructure can achieve multiple benefits.
Source: Trust for Public Land
CALENVIROSCREEN 4.0
The tool helps identify California communities that are most affected by many sources of pollution, and where people are often especially vulnerable to pollution’s effects.
Source: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
REDESIGN LA
This site can help evaluate stormwater infiltration and water quality improvement opportunities and constraints across the Los Angeles Basin.
Source: Council for Watershed Health
CALIFORNIA HEALTHY PLACES INDEX
This tool helps to explore and change those community conditions (ex: housing, education, transportation, park access, social factors) that predict life expectancy.
Source: Public Health Alliance of Southern California
LA COUNTY PARK NEEDS ASSESSMENT
This tool quantifies the need for parks and recreation resources in Los Angeles County.
Source: LA County Department of Parks and Recreation
CALIFORNIA HEAT
ASSESSMENT TOOL
This tool looks at heat vulnerability driven by climate changes and where action can be taken to mitigate the public health impacts of extreme heat in the future.
Source: Four Twenty Seven
HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER DATA TOOL
This tool provides a quantitative assessment of water quality, water accessibility, and water affordability across California.
Source: California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
LA COUNTY WATER SYSTEM GOVERNANCE
This tool shares water system data for those community water service providers across Los Angeles County.
Source: UCLA Luskin Center For Innovation
LA COUNTY TREE CANOPY VIEWER
A map viewer tool that highlights existing and possible tree canopy coverage in Los Angeles County.
Source: TreePeople
COMMUNITY
DEMOGRAPHICS TOOL
A map viewer tool that helps identify challenges in your community using up-to-date census analytics.
Source: PolicyMap
EJSCREEN COMMUNITY
MAPPING TOOL
An environmental justice screening tool with high resolution maps and a methodology for combining datasets to identify environmental burdens on vulnerable populations.
CITY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFILES
Local level data for a broad array of indicators known to impact community health and well-being.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health
TREE EQUITY SCORE NATIONAL EXPLORER
Shade cover data at the census block group level for 360+ of the largest US cities.
Source: UCLA Luskin Center and American Forests
TOOLS - Site Assessment & Design
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Tools to assess site conditions, determine appropriate project BMP selections and sizing, and plan scenarios.
EPA STORMWATER CALCULATOR
A tool to help balance land developments and landscaping with the right amount of green infrastructure.
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
CALIFORNIA LID BMP
SIZING TOOL
A tool to assist in selecting and sizing LID Best Management Practices that meet the sizing requirements set forth in California's NPDES permit.
Source: Office of Water Programs, Sacramento State
GREEN VALUES BMP
CALCULATOR
This calculator allows you to define one or more properties and then evaluate what combination of Green Infrastructure BMPs meet the necessary runoff reduction goal in a cost-effective way.
Source: Center for Neighborhood Technology
I-TREE TOOLS
I-Tree tools can be used to estimate long-term environmental benefits from tree planting projects including GHG reduction, carbon sequestration and stormwater runoff avoided.
Source: Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition
NATIONAL TREE BENEFIT CALCULATOR
Technical guidance and site planning strategies for low impact development (LID) tailored to Southern California.
Source: Casey Tree and Davey Tree Expert Co.
LID MANUAL FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Technical guidance and site planning strategies for low impact development (LID) tailored to Southern California.
Source: Southern California Stormwater Monitoring Coalition
LA COUNTY LID STANDARDS MANUAL
This manual provides guidance for the implementation of stormwater quality control measures in new development and redevelopment projects.
Source: LA County Department of Public Works
STORMWATER BMP HANDBOOK
This handbook provides
general guidance for selecting and implementing BMPs that reduce pollutants in runoff in newly developed and redeveloped areas.
Source: California Stormwater Quality Association
DESIGN YOUR COMPLETE STREET
Use this tool to design, remix, and share your street. Add bike paths, trees, planting buffers, widen sidewalks or traffic lanes, and learn how all of this can impact your community.
Source: Streetmix.net
CALSCAPE NATIVE PLANT SELECTION TOOL
When considering plant palettes, this tool will help identify and filter native plants local to your site.
Source: California Native Plant Society
CAL-IPC INVASIVE PLANT INVENTORY
When considering plant palettes, this inventory will help you identify what plants NOT to use on your site.
Source: California Invasive Plant Council