Runoff from paving supports vegetation in the drainages surrounding the maintenance facility.

Planting on the site is designed to mitigate the visual impact of the facility paving from specific views from Qunicy Road and the County Road. In relating to its location, the design draws on an agricultural model, where plantings relate to the facility and create microclimates. At the high point of the site, a coniferous community association typical on the Palmer Divide south of the area includes ponderosa and pinon pines, junipers and mountain mahogany. The upper drainages contain a shrub community including american plum and chokecherry. In the water quality area, an aerial hedge of ash provides an extremely effective break to the visual impact of the paving. Site trees including locust and hackberry are particularly well-suited to naturalizing on this high plains site.

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Parking lot runoff is directed to a water quality swale planted with native grasses. Sediment here can easily be removed by a small bobcat.