The following considerations apply to sustainable site design:

• Reduce the development footprint by minimizing disturbance and maximizing open space.
• Avoid ecologically sensitive areas such as floodplains, wetlands, steep slopes, etc.
  
• Plan landscape development according to the surrounding context rather than by overlaying familiar patterns and solutions.
  
• Avoid fragmenting habitats so that normally widespread populations are separated into small populations.
  
• Allow the natural ecosystem to be self-maintaining to the greatest extent possible.
  
• Recognize there is no such thing as waste, only resources out of place.
  
• Promote pedestrian and bicycle use through bike racks and showers with changing rooms.
  
• Promote mass transit and carpooling.
  
• Analyze and model water and nutrient cycles prior to development intervention.
  
• Minimize areas of vegetation disturbance, earth grading, and water channel alternation.
  
• Locate structures to take maximum advantage of passive energy technologies to provide for human comfort.
  
• Research alternative energies and the associated site requirements of each in order to achieve the goals presented in the EISA.
  
• Provide space for processing all wastes created onsite (collection/recycling facilities, digesters, lagoons, etc.) so that no hazardous or destructive wastes will be released into the environment.