Covered long term bike parking

Hi Michelle - Have you found any guidance to your question? I, too, was caught by surprise when I found the language only in the glossary definition.

OK, thanks. That seems like a weird place to put a credit requirement considering it's not in the base requirements in the reference guide. I've submitted an inquiry to GBCI and will post here when I get a response.

Hi all - I received the following response after submitting an inquiry to GBCI:

"The requirement for secure and enclosed long term bike parking is specific to v4 Healthcare - Case 2: Residential. Long term bicycle storage is a relatively new requirement, as you know, but for now it is the responsibility of the team to look at the definitions page for each item. LEED is looking into including “covered to protect” in the base credit language."

So, for now it's not a requirement outside of v4 Healthcare - Residential but I expect they'll issue an addendum soon.

Hi both Michelles,

I've communicated with Michelle R about this. There are 2 different requirements.

1. For commercial projects, long-term parking must be covered to protect bicycles from rain and snow.

2. For residential HC projects, the long-term storage must be secure and enclosed.

I hope that clarifies the 2 situations.

Peggy Brock, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Just to confirm . . . commercial projects are required to have covered bicycle parking for long-term parking?

Hello Erin, 

Commercial projects are required to provide covered parking for long-term bicycle storage to protect bicycles from rain and snow. 

This requireement is found within the definition of the reference guide....'long term bicycle storage is covered to protect bicycles from rain and snow'.

So when the credit requirements state "Provide long term bicycle storage for at least 5% of all regular building occupants" it is required by the definition of 'long term bicycle storage' for these spots to be covered. 

Hi all, 

I am wondering folks thoughts about the following covered parking situation. We have a new LEED project being designed next to an existing building with a long canopy walkway. With limited site area for a covered parking structure (and cost contraints) it seems to make sense to put the new project's bike parking under this canopy, but would we need to take into account the existing building's FTE when determining how many long term stalls are needed? (existing building has a good amount of existing bike stalls at the covered entry but they are not ADA).

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance!

 Shared bicycle storage if claimed within this type of approach:

• Must be within the referenced maximium walking distance from any LEED building entrance AND
• Must be in excess of the amount that would be calculated for the existing building (both short and long term) (i.e. storage that is fully allocated to the occupants of non-project facilities cannot also serve LEED project occupants).