Does anyone know whether bicycle paths are necessary at a kindergarten facility with no students above grade 3 level? Bicycle storage will be only available to staff members. Please note that since there are no students above grade 3 level, bicycle storage space are only allocated for the staff members, similarly to a regular office building where no bicycle paths are required.
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David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1976 thumbs up
July 28, 2014 - 5:12 pm
You make a good point that we can expect the bike users in your project to only be adults. The dedicated bike lines are intended to keep kids on bikes separate from car travel lanes while they are on the school property, and to allow kids on bikes access through any fences or gates on the school perimeter so they can travel in different directions.
You might want to use the "special circumstances" narrative in the credit form to explain your situation. Depending on how your site is designed, you might have paths and access points along the perimeter that meet the credit requirements. Can you show the route(s) on which the bike commuters will travel?
Charalampos Giannikopoulos
Senior Sustainability ConsultantDCarbon
84 thumbs up
July 29, 2014 - 4:22 am
David, we submitted the clarification described above that bicycle will be for staff only and the credit was marked as anticipated without including bicycle paths.