BRIGHTON MONROE GIGP PROJECT

Based on the Vision Plan and the Town's stormwater management expertise, we applied for and received Green Innovation Grant Program (GIGP) funding. The primary purpose of this proposed GIGP project is to progress strategies to improve stormwater management and water quality, while simultaneously resulting in the initial revitalization improvements of Monroe Avenue as recommended in the Vision Plan. The Monroe Avenue green infrastructure (GI) system will provide a stormwater management approach with a basic principle that is modeled after nature: manage rainfall at the source using uniformly distributed micro-scale controls. GI's goal is to mimic a site's predevelopment hydrology by using design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff close to its source... In 2011, the Town of Brighton collaborated with the Rochester Regional Community Design Center (RRCDC) to produce the Monroe Avenue Corridor Community Vision Plan. With input from area residents,..