| The Denver Zoo
is evolving. Exchanging a taxonomic-based site plan that
exhibits animals grouped by family, genus and species for
one based on environment including exhibits that contain
a variety of species sharing a distinct landscape setting.
The project calls for renovating the facility completely
and modernizing infrastructure, in particular.
Parks & Gardens coordinated a series of three
planning and design projects including:
- “The Infrastructure Master Plan”
satisfies modern regulatory requirements and provides
a foundation for new exhibit design.
- “Asian Tropics” new exhibit that
builds directly on the Master Plan strategy for detaining
only water quality volumes on-site, using the water to
support landscape development and passing storm volumes
on to Duck Lake in City.
- "Duck Lake Management Plan" coordinates
the zoo's permitting strategy for storm management with
the City of Denver's Parks and Recreation Department and
City Wastewater Department's Montclair Drainage Basin
Master Plan.
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