I understand that each entrance to non-residential buildings must be counted separately. It is also clear that the entrance to an office building with multiple suites is counted once for each suite.
My question is whether each entrance to a non-residential buildings with multiple suites is counted multiple times. Our project includes a retail mall with several hundred retail units and multiple entrances on different levels. While the mall is clearly a focus of the project, the number of entrances multiplied by the number of entrances will be several times the number of other entrances in the entire project.
Eliot Allen
LEED AP-ND, PrincipalCriterion Planners
LEEDuser Expert
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August 21, 2013 - 3:40 pm
Michael, the best way to approach this is by allocating the number of businesses in a mall to the mall's external entrances, eg a total of 100 businesses and six external entrances might have 50 businesses assigned to one entrance, and 10 businesses assigned to each of the remaining five entrances. Businesses can't be counted at more than one external entrance. So when calculating the percent of total business entrances walkable to transit, each entrance is weighted by the number of businesses accessed via that entrance. Also, if a project includes both dwellings and businesses, the threshold is 50% of the total, not 50% of dwellings and 50% of businesses.
Eliot