The compaction associated with installing permeable concrete is in the top 10's of inches of ground at most. Typical aquifiers are 10's-100's of feet below ground surface, so that doesn't matter.
California has particularly terrible drainage. Although engineers and installers around here are correct when they point out that soil heaving is a real issue (everything is clay, and so it expands and contracts a lot), it's mostly gross incompetence from what I've seen.
The contracts we ended up signing with geological engineers, etc, all limited liability to the price of the contract. So we paid $10K to a useless engineering firm to get obviously broken designs approved by the local planning office and environmental review (the plan reviewers are also completely incompetent from what I've seen -- think "water likes to flow uphill", or "I dropped out of grade school because I don't understand trigonometry" incompetent).
The broken plans ended up costing us $150K, and now I'm good with a shovel and earth-moving equipment and material relocation logistics. It's probably illegal for us to touch the drainage without a permit, but we also are apparently legally liable if we don't maintain / repair it.
It's not just us: Tons of roads wash out, basements flood, suburban yards end up with sinkholes that could swallow a car, drains clog, roads flood, bridges wash away, etc, etc. This sort of thing happens on a widespread basis every few years.
Anyway, tl;dr: If you want to reduce the environmental impact of construction and drainage in California, mandate legal liability that includes damages + replacement / upgrade costs to a working system, and spread that liability across the engineering firms and planning commissions that are approving these plans.