11th Street Rain Garden Five Years Later
It has been nearly 5 years since I posted about a demonstration rain garden downtown, see New Downtown Rain Garden Reduces Sidewalk Width Too Much. The design issues remain:
- Rain garden takes up sidewalk rather than street
- Parking still isn’t allowed in front of rain garden, so a lane of asphalt isn’t being used.
Still, now that the plants have matured it looks so much better.
It collects water runoff from the sidewalk and adjacent surface parking lot, the more rain water we can keep out of the sewer system the better. I still see no reason why a parking space or two hasn’t been added to 11th Street.
— Steve Patterson