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Why are the CI designated parking requirements in Cases 1 and & 2 Option 1 determined by a Full Time Equivalent of tenant space/building while for New Construction the requirements are simply a percentage of parking provided?

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CI-2009 SSc3.3:Alternative Transportation—Parking Availability

FTEs only!?!?

Is the 5% really only based on the FTEs and not the peak building users? If the tenant space has 7 FTE but 100 visitors (transients), does it really only have to provide 1 (7*0.05 /2, round up) preferred space and not 3 (107*0.05/2, round up)? (The parking provided serves both the FTEs and the visitors (transients) so it seems like LEED really should be addressing both of these as is done in NC.)

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Matthew VanSweden
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Mon, 03/25/2013 - 18:18

Michelle, Yes, that is my understanding. LEED-NC assumes the client/owner has a greater influence over the site design and therefore has more opportunity to provide car- /van-pool spaces. For this reason some of the site requirements in LEED-CI are lesser than that of LEED-NC. Further, most LEED-CI tenants I've worked with only negotiate a smaller number of "guaranteed parking spaces," which is based off the number of staff the tenant has, and a larger number of "available parking spaces." The "guaranteed" spaces are specific to the tenant [usually designated as such], the "available" spaces are not. However, I would also add that if your client realistically expects a hundred daily visitors and they can realistically expect these visitors to carpool, then by all means, encourage them to put in the additional two car- /van-pool spaces. Otherwise ,the one space will met the requirements of this credit.

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