I have a current project that has a parking lot surrounded by itself and at least two other buildings.
The project has 10 dedicated parking stalls as indicated in their lease. A company next door has 25 dedicated stalls, but the landlord also has a lease agreement requiring that he has to provide an additional 42 stalls to that company which all spill over into the property adjacent to my client's lease. There is also an additional retail building at the back of the site that also parks in this 'common area'. These spaces are not my clients to control or for their customers to use, technically.
Additionally, the project's lease line is only the building footprint, as they do not lease the lot itself. The parking area was included in the initial LEED boundary to capture the 10 spaces given to the client's building and also to show the 1 space of the 10 was set aside for LEV parking.
I was not aware that the lease line did not include the parking area when documenting this credit. Naturally, questions came back from the review as to why I only set aside one space (for the allotment of 10 space) when so many more are shown.
Should I explain it as I did above or modify the LEED boundary line to reflect that their lot is not included in their sf of the project? Or both?
Erin Holdenried
Sustainability Architect125 thumbs up
August 12, 2013 - 5:08 pm
I have encountered this type of issue on a number of projects that have shared parking/bicycle storage areas (even for areas that could be perceived to be shared or have potential to be shared). Based on reviewer comments, it seems that there are two options (which I hope will be addressed definitively in an addenda soon). You can either:
1) Provide enough LEV parking for entire parking area that your building and the adjacent buildings have access to; OR
2) Provide LEV parking for your project's allotted parking only. For this option, the signage must indicate that the LEV parking is reserved for your building's use only.
I think it is reasonable to include the parking within your LEED boundary. Although it is outside the lease boundary, it is an amenity the serves the functioning of the project. I hope the owner can provide the appropriate signage to get this credit.