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City of Markham Low Impact Development Guidelines
Published by City of Markham
This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Markham
- Date
- November 2018
- Also called
- Low Impact Development (LID) Guidelines (November 2018) [PDF]
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 68
Overview
The City of Markham Low Impact Development Guidelines of November 2018, prepared for the City by The Municipal Infrastructure Group Ltd. with Schollen & Company Inc. They give screening-level direction on which LID stormwater practices suit different land uses: on public road rights-of-way, parks, SWM pond blocks and City institutional sites, and on private residential, condominium, commercial, employment and institutional development, with redundancy factors and next steps. Appendices hold an LID options matrix, specific considerations, the water balance redundancy factor, definitions and schematic examples.
What it covers
- Contents
- Introduction
- General Principles and Implementation Strategy
- General Conditions, Criteria and Requirements for LIDs on Public Rights-of-Way, Parks and Other City-Owned Property
- General Conditions, Criteria and Requirements for LIDs within Private Property
- Next Steps
- Appendix A LID Options Matrix
- Appendix B LID Specific Considerations Table
- Appendix C LID Water Balance Redundancy Factor
- Appendix D LID Definitions
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