Compact Car Spaces

Hi Allen,
Yes, I have documented this credit dozens of times and never had any issues with whether the parking space was compact or not.

Apparently not. I was in a similar situation and had several of the LEFE-signed spaces also as compact spaces. We just received the following comment:

"The provided parking plans indicate that several of the reserved parking spaces are sized for compact vehicles, whereas the reserved parking spaces must be available to all occupants. Provide a revised parking plan showing that the standard sized parking spaces located closest to the building's primary entrances have been reserved for low-emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles."

Hi Chris,
Wow, I am truly surprised though it is unfortunately not unknown for reviewers to adopt more narrow standards among themselves than the requirements dictate which we find out through review comments. Did you ask them to cite the reference manual or LI language that indicates size of the space matters? Did you ask for a post review call about this technical advice? Are you actually supposed to bypass spaces closest to the entrance and ADA spaces to reach "standard sized" spaces resulting in a situation where you have potentially numerous compact spaces nearest the primary entrance that were not preferred? Is there some metric out there about how many of the vehicles listed on the ACEEE 40+ list are not compact sized?