Action Steps

Calculate the rough site area that you’ll need to restore. Is 50% of your site (minus building footprint) or 20% of the total site (including building footprint) larger?  Whichever is larger, you will need to restore an area of that size. Will this be feasible under the rough design? If you have a small site with a large building footprint, you may not be able to achieve the requirement. 

You must address two scenarios related to erosion and sedimentation (E&S) controls to earn this credit:

• regular, ongoing maintenance of permanent controls;
• and temporary controls implemented during construction activities.

Create a site plan with the required buffer areas (see credit language). You may decide to alter the site plan to accommodate the designated boundary of site disturbance. For example, you may find that keeping sidewalks (which have a 10-foot buffer) within the 40-foot buffer of the building when possible will make sidewalk construction easier, because construction vehicles will have more room to maneuver. 

Determine the building footprint and the likely locations of other site features:

• surface walkways, patios, surface parking, and utilities less than 12 inches in diameter;
• primary roadway curbs and main utility branch trenches;
• constructed areas with permeable surfaces such as pervious paving areas, stormwater detention facilities, and playing fields.

What kind of site do you have? 

Adopt the IPM program in its entirety. You may not demonstrate incremental adoption of the program as you can with other components of the SSc3 Plan.

Define the conditions under which your facility will resort to using toxic pesticides—for example, an infestation that poses a threat to the safety or well-being of human occupants.

Use the 2007 San Francisco Pesticide Hazard Screening List(see Resources) as your guide to determining if the chemical pesticides you use on your site are considered least-toxic or if they will require universal notification prior to administration.

Create an approval process whenever a vendor proposes a new chemical application.