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Does LEED have any requirements on spacing or the type of bike racks used? What about security?

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My project type serves visitors who can reasonably be expected to not be using bikes, e.g. hotel, airport, assisted living facility. Can I exclude them from bike rack requirements?

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NC-2009 SSc4.2:Alternative Transportation—Bicycle Storage and Changing Rooms

Bike Racks for a Movie Theater - SSc4.2

Is it reasonable to propose bike racks for less than 5% of peak-time building users for a new Movie Theater? The building will have 20 FTEs and a total peak-time load of 2,071...that assumes every seat is full. The ONLY times movie theaters ever approach this condition is on Friday and Saturday nights, when many patrons will probably be unlikely to ride their bikes.

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Tue, 07/05/2011 - 22:02

On some project types, you can make a reasonable and credible assumption that very few of the transient building occupants or visitors will be riding bikes - airports, hotels, and assisted living facilities have been granted exceptions in the past. On the other hand, for many standard building types you could argue all kinds of reasons why people won't ride a bike - time of day, type of user, level of dress, climate, geographic location, etc. Since the intent of the credit is to encourage and reward a change in behavior, transform the market place, and not accept the status quo as unchangeable, I doubt you'd get an exemption for a movie theater. You can always try, but you may get a response along the lines of "not all credits are appropriate for all project types," which is often the case.

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