To start your tracking plan, make a list of the ongoing consumables purchased in the building and, if possible, estimate the dollar amounts spent on each. You will have to track actual costs during the performance period, but estimating cost at this early phase will help inform you of where the most money is spent and where you should focus your procurement efforts.
If pursuing Option 3, provide the two lists of students, showing that 80% or more students have pedestrian access. Draw a map showing the two areas defined by the appropriate distances (0.75 miles and 1.5 miles) and clearly illustrate and state that a total of 80% of students that attend the school live within these specified areas. The map must include a scale.
Develop detailed construction drawings and specifications for the walking and biking paths from the school building to the edge of the school property.
Fill in the LEED Online credit form. Document the credit with a site plan highlighting the pedestrian route from the building entrance to the identified bus or train stop or stops. Provide a distance scale to confirm that the building entrance is within the required distance of transit—¼ mile for bus, ½ mile for train.
Schools can meet this credit through providing pedestrian access. To determine whether you comply with this option, develop two lists of students and their walking distances from home to school, one for students who are in Grade 8 and below (maximum distance from school of 0.75 miles), and one for students Grades 9 and above (maximum distance from school of 1.5 miles). Distances are as the crow flies, not actual walking distance—as long as there is actual pedestrian access. Then determine whether a minimum of 80% of the students live within those distances.
Schools must also provide dedicated walking paths and biking lanes that connect the school buildings to the edge of the school property without the interference of vehicles or fences. A minimum of two paths going in two different directions must be provided.
