The Framework Plan focuses on the overlaps of city and water to create a reconciliation landscape that overcomes their traditional mutual exclusivity. The plan imagines a cityscape that cultivates a highly livable green urban environment made through “low-tech/high concept” enhancements to ordinary infrastructure investments already scheduled to service the city’s growth. Since urban watersheds are in direct competition with cities over the very ways in which the surface area should be shaped, the Framework Plan proposes a portfolio of value-added infrastructural retrofits—green streets, water treatment art parks, urban eco-farms, conservation neighborhoods, parking gardens, riparian corridor improvements, lake aerators, vegetative harvesters and floating bio-mats, and a city greenway—complementing mainstream infrastructural investments. The approach builds a representative cityscape expressive of the city’s desire for a place-based green stormwater utility.
