Building Height to Street Width Ratio Issues

Shenhao Li

Atkins

LEEDuser Basic Member

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May 10, 2011

NPD P1 Walkable Street requires at least 15% of existing and new street frontage within and bordering the project has a minimum "building-height-to-street-width ratio" of 1:3. Can anybody explain the definition of street frontage? Can I understand that it is a building facade runs parallel to an street? There is a community in my hand that most of its building facade are not designed alongside the street, how can I identify the eligible ratio then?

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Eliot Allen

LEED AP-ND, Principal

Criterion Planners

LEEDuser Expert

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Thu, 06/02/2011 - 22:14

"Street frontage" is diagrammed in Figure 13 of the Getting Started chapter of the ND Reference Guide, and means the distance from one end of a block to the other end of the block. Buildings whose facades don't face a street cannot be counted toward the minimum 15% of streets with a minimum 1:3 BH-SW ratio.