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designteamEAST
team report
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The
East Team
focused on a portion of Salado
Creek as it winds through a largely residential area of the far
East Side. The team sought to retain the natural beauty and flood-control
properties of the creek while also increasing public access to it. New
streets were proposed parallel to the creek to link now-fragmented residential
enclaves, to create new opportunities for housing development, to provide
additional passive surveillance of the creek right-of-way and to link residential
neighborhoods with potential sites for commercial development.
Noting that the creek is stressed
mainly by storm water runoff, the team proposed bioremediation techniques
such as storm water wetlands and retention areas. The team urged the removal
of houses that were built within the flood plain. -
Mike Greenberg
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