Green Way™ Projects will:
- Cleanse urban runoff from storms that goes into our streams & oceans
- Replenish local underground water supply
- Provide cooler, greener, cleaner streets, sidewalks and parkways for healthier pedestrian activity
- Retrofit existing parks and other open space to add capacity for naturally cleansing urban runoff and for replenishing local underground water supply
- Educate residents on how to “Live Lightly” in our cities
 The first Green Way™ project, Oros Green Street, completed in July 2007, just down the hill from Dodger Stadium in Elysian Valley exemplifies this commitment to transform the urban infrastructure from “gray” to “green” and complete the cycle of restoring nature’s services in the urban environment. The project re-designed a residential street and Steelhead Park’s infrastructure to manage storm and dry weather runoff capture in an environmentally sustainable way rather than allowing the water to just runoff, untreated, to the ocean causing harm to humans and marine life. The water is instead cleaned naturally through gravel, soil and vegetative filters; it nurtures habitat instead of harming it. The park and a city street are now part of a much-needed environmental solution that treats water as a valuable resource that can contribute to life rather than take away from life.
Funding from the Resource Legacy Foundation has allowed Green Way™ to build on its original “Green Street Selection Criteria Matrix”, previously  developed for the Oros Green Street Project. Multiple street types or “typologies” are being identified, and matched with site appropriate stormwater recharge andwater quality improvement Best Management Practices (BMPs). To view an overhead diagram of a generic green street, click here.
Other projects underway include two (2) Green Street Projects along Ballona Creek, currently funded through the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (SMBRC). These streets are currently in the final stages of design with construction expected to begin in Spring 2009. In addition, design is well underway on a privately funded West Los Angeles Green Street Specific streets are currently being reviewed as final candidates for this project that will be constructed on a residential street adjacent to Melrose Ave.
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