| Open Space is the major,
nature based, component of the City of Aurora's Parks and
Open Space System. The uses within the system include visual
experiences, wildlife habitat and limited, controlled, recreational
uses.
Parks & Gardens developed guidelines to serve
as a baseline for the design and subsequent development
of industrial scale civic infrastructure facilities to be
located on Open Space land at the Aurora Reservoir. The
guidelines support the planning and design of roadways,
site drainage, landscape restoration, buildings and exterior
spaces and also include construction mitigation measures.
The guidelines were developed for a specific long-term
management regime and use four management classifications
as a way of establishing baseline assumptions for all work
to follow. The final document is currently being used to
guide to design and construction of the Prairie Waters Water
Purification Project and several satellite utility projects.
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Prairie Style Architecture defines
outdoor space and mediates the relatively small scale of
the building and the vast scale of the plains.
Landscape design of outdoor spaces
will be constructed as an extension of the architecture.
The level spreader shown and redistributes
concentrated storm flows to help sustain a variety of upland
shrub species and aid in re-establishing native grasses.
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