Air Quality Considerations in Residential Planning. Volume 2. Manual for Air Quality Considerations in Residential Location, Design and Construction

摘要

The report is designed to help the recipients of Community Development Block Grants and the appropriate HUD staff to assess air quality at the sites of new housing construction or rehabilitation and, if necessary, to take measures that will mitigate the pollution they find. The second of three volumes, this book presents a compendium of options for manual assessment of air quality conditions. Assessment procedures are applied separately to each of a number of points (receptor points) within the boundaries of the housing site where residents (receptors), especially children, the elderly, and the infirm, are likely to be exposed to air pollution. The analysis process and the format and flow of the analytical techniques themselves are described. The information requirements for a complete air quality analysis are outlined. Guidance for transforming available data types and formats into forms required for analysis input is provided. The manual also presents an efficient and orderly way to perform a number of component analyses leading to a summary of outdoor air quality at a proposed residential site. An explanation of how to interpret the results of individual analyses precedes a discussion of project design and mitigation measures, including guidance for the location, design, and construction of residential housing projects with the intention of optimizing marginal or undesirable air quality situations. Discussions deal with the problem of estimating the effects of the proposed project on the community, effects which stem from point source emissions within the community and from motor vehicle emissions from the project-generated trips.