Green infrastructure (GI) and low impact developments (LID) benefits have been realized environmentally and economically. However, the application of the GI and (LID) is hampered by the lack of funding for stormwater utilities combined with the hesitancy of the private sector to take on the financing risk and transaction costs. Therefore, there are currently dozens of incentive programs and innovative financing models to attract private sector sources into GI and LID implementation beyond the minimum development ordinance requirements. While the multitude of incentive programs at the federal and state levels for GI and LID is encouraging, there is no assessment of those program's success, failures or the lessons learned from them. Although, there have been many case studies done by the EPA and others, there is no comprehensive research of the exact incentive programs and/or their effectiveness. The objective of this paper is to provide a research framework for creating an extensive, easy-to-navigate compendium of incentive programs that is categorized by several attributes for the end users as well as to establish a comprehensive set of measurable performance indicators for incentive programs that help the end-users to identify the most efficient incentives.
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