To better position communities to improve stormwater management, CMAP has developed an approach to help identify problem areas and causes and begin to articulate discrete, on-the-ground opportunities for improvements that can reduce flooding. The purpose of this approach is to present a cost-efficient planning tool to assess flooding issues, inform stakeholders and decision makers about potential flood mitigation options, particularly green infrastructure (GI) and land use solutions, and to incorporate those solutions into land use and transportation decisions.

About the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)

The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is our region’s comprehensive planning organization. The agency and its partners developed and are now implementing ON TO 2050, a new long-range plan to help the seven counties and 284 communities of northeastern Illinois implement strategies that address transportation, housing, economic development, open space, the environment, and other quality-of-life issues.