POST 023 · CAUSAL CHAIN REFRAME

Your site plan is actually a stormwater plan.

Choose a detention strategy. Adjust storm intensity and site area. The site plan redraws — detention eats buildable area. The building lives in what the water left.

Site plan · 2.4 acres—

Site area2.4 ac

Design storm100-yr

Detention strategy

Stormwater → Yield impact

Buildable area

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Detention SF

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Max units

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Added cost

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The detention goes first. The building pad is what's left. The civil engineer draws the real site plan — the architect fits into it.