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- Overview
- Trail Design Guidelines
- Overarching Standards
- Trail Shoulder Standards
- Layout Standards
- Greenway Cross Sections
- Intersections and Crossings
- Trail Nodes
- Surfacing
- Trail Structures & Furnishings
- MASONRY WALLS, SEAT WALLS, retaining walls – RECOMMENDATIONS
- MODULAR AND CONCRETE MASONRY UNIT WALLS – RECOMMENDATIONS
- CONCRETE STEM WALL – RECOMMENDATIONS
- BOULDER/ LEDGE ROCK WALL – RECOMMENDATIONS
- BRIDGES & LANDINGS
- BRIDGE ABUTMENT – STANDARDS
- SHELTERS / PAVILIONS – RECOMMENDATIONS
- HANDRAILS – BASIS OF DESIGN
- FENCING – BASIS OF DESIGN
- CONTEMPORARY FURNISHINGS – RECOMMENDATIONS
- HISTORIC FURNISHINGS – RECOMMENDATIONS
- TRANSITIONAL FURNISHINGS – RECOMMENDATIONS
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN – INSTALLATION DETAIL
- Environmental Design Guidlines
- STORMWATER AND GRADING CONSIDERATIONS
- STORMWATER BMP SELECTION RECOMMENDATIONS
- Bioretention – Rain Garden – Recommendations
- STANDARD CROSS SECTION – TRAIL WITH BMP
- Permeable Pavement- Recommendations
- Amended Soils Disconnection- Recommendations
- Stormwater Ponds and Wetlands- recommendations
- Bioretention – Stormwater Control Swales- Recommendations
- Temporary Bank Stabilization Strategies
- Permanent Bank Stabilization Recommendations
- In-Stream Stabilization Techniques
- Culverts and Piping – Standards
- TRAIL PLANTING GUIDELINES
- TYPICAL PLANTING DESIGN
- SOIL PREPARATION
- STANDARD TURF SHOULDER
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TURF LAWN / HIGH MOW LAWN
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NATIVE GRASSLAND PLANTING
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NATIVE SHRUB AND PERENNIAL BEDS
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WOODLAND / FOREST PLANTING
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STREAMBANK PLANTING
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WETLAND/ POND EDGE PLANTING
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BIORETENTION / RAIN GARDEN
- STANDARDS FOR TREES PLANTING
- STANDARDS FOR TREE STAKING
- SHRUBS, ORNAMENTAL GRASSES, & PERENNIALS
- RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BED EDGES
- STORMWATER AND GRADING CONSIDERATIONS
- Pre-Construction & Construction
- Onboarding Resources
When planning the use of shrubs, ornamental grasses, and perennials, the design team should strive to use a plant palette that is comprised of 95% regionally native plant species.
Specified sizes should be appropriate for the scale of the space and the desired “immediate impact.” Designers should be utilizing specifications where minimum standards are set for quality of plant material (size, health, vigor, branch & root structure), to be based on ANSI standards.
