Adopt a complete streets policy, or a living streets policy, which addresses landscaping and stormwater.

Complete Streets Policies: 

• A Complete Street is safe, and feels safe, for all users (Federal Highway Administration, 2023). This includes safety for people of all ages and abilities, regardless of whether they are traveling as drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, or public transportation riders. The concept of Complete Streets encompasses many approaches to planning, designing, and operating roadways and rights of way with all users in mind to make the transportation network safer and more efficient. Complete Street policies are set at the state, regional, and local levels and are frequently supported by roadway design guidelines.
• Complete Streets Implementation Resource Guide for Minnesota Local Agencies (MnDOT, MN Local Road Research Board, 2013)
• Planning and Implementing of Complete Streets at Multiple Scales (MnDOT, MLRRB: 2013)
• See the Best 2023 Complete Streets Policies, The Complete Streets Policy Framework, and evaluate your policy (Smart Growth America, 2023)
• See a A Guide to Building Healthy Streets (Change Lab Solutions: 2016) that highlights the unique role public health staff can play with implementing Complete Streets.

Living Streets: 

• Edina’s 2015 Living Streets Plan that’s moving the city toward more human-centered streets and implement the city’s Living Streets Policy. The framework includes providing multiple modes of transportation; reducing environmental impacts by reducing impervious surfaces, managing stormwater and providing shade; and improving quality of life aspects and community identify.
• Maplewood’s 2013 Living Streets Policy includes goals of: enhancing biking and walking conditions, enhance safety and security of streets, calm traffic, create livable neighborhoods, improve stormwater quality, enhance the urban forest, reduce life cycle costs, and improve neighborhood aesthetics. 
• North St. Paul's 2011 Living Streets Plan details a less expensive way to rebuild 30-foot streets without sidewalks into 22-foot streets with trees, zero stormwater runoff, parking bays, sidewalks, and a bike lane. 
• The 2013 Maplewood Living Street Demonstration Project reconstructed 2 miles of residential streets and saved $100,000 by using this complete green street guidance.
• Principles for the Living Street of Tomorrow (National Street Service, Ford Motor Co., Gehl Inc.: 2018)
• The Promoting Active Communities assessment from the State of Michigan is an extensive resource related to Complete Streets for active community planning, zoning, site plan review, maintenance, schools and worksites.

Street Design: 

• The 2016 St. Paul Street Design Manual and Complete Streets Action Plan are tools to aide in implementation.
• The 2011 Model Design Manual for Living Streets was produced by 45 of the nation's top street designers and covers the principles of Complete Streets and green streets in extensive detail, though is tailored for Los Angeles County. 
• Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares (Institute for Transportation Engineers, Congress for the New Urbanism, 2010)
• Urban Street Stormwater Guide and Urban Street Design Guide: National Association of City Transportation Officials (2017, 2013)
• Resources and background on emergency response and narrower street design, rethinking the size of fire trucks, and the latest data on saving lives by means of evidence-based good street design. See also San Francisco Has a New 'Vision Zero' Fire Truck (Planetizen: 2017). 
• See several national-level efforts that integrate transportation planning and sustainability: 
  • Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System being used in Edina
  • GreenLITES self-certification program
  • GreenRoads rating system
  • Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Sustainable Highways Self-Evaluation Tool called INVEST