The Sustainable Sites Initiative was created to promote sustainable land development and management practices that can apply to sites with and without buildings. The program will provide tools for those who influence land development and management practices. Part of this will focus on communicating ideas through practice, ie case studies. These case studies will be a large part of the initiative and after receiving over 125 submittals, 9 projects were chosen for the Sustainable Sites Initiative, one of them Clinton Beach Park. The green roof and porous paving will be the main elements of the park to be monitered.
Other projects include:
- Garden/Garden: A Comparison in Santa Monica
- High Point
- Kresge Foundation Headquarters
- Malokepsy/Battershell Residence Garden
- Orange County Great Park
- Pearl Brewery
- Point Fraser Precinct Development
- Queens Botanical Garden Visitor and Administration Center Building and Landscape
. The plaza’s small scale and finishes make it more of a pedestrian zone than vehicular street, with unobstructed views to Elliot Bay and beyond. There are several aspects of the plaza that make it unique, especially given it is a public Right of Way (though an undersized dead end, which allowed latitude in how it could be treated). Some unique elements; the plaza is built over an exiting structure, Is predominately paved in pre-cast pavers (rare for a Seattle ROW), is lighted with an overhead pendant lights (freeing the plaza from the additional clutter of poles), and includes a fountain at the street end (that doubles as a vehicle barrier!). A unique detail we take great pride in is the incorporation of luminescent glass pavers into the sidewalk. Also included in the plaza is a commission art piece by 
