I have a rural project on a working farm. The development foot print (building, path to building, minor drive to/from) is quite insignificant relative to the total acreage. BUT the rest of the farm is currently used for food production and we have no plans to revisit or change that. Obviously, food crops do not constitute native or adapted vegetation (use of fertilizers, plowing, planting, harvesting all work against the support of habitats, etc.).
Because of the existing food production on the vast majority of the site, I see this as a project with "limited landscape opportunities" and would like to pursue a donation to a land trust as our form of compliance.
Any one else have experience with this compliance path??
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11475 thumbs up
January 20, 2011 - 10:56 pm
Brooks, this sounds like the right approach for the situation. Did you have any specific questions about this path?
Brooks Critchfield
PrincipalOpen Field Designs, Inc.
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January 25, 2011 - 2:33 pm
Hi--thanks for your reply. I have a couple of v2009 projects that will pursue this compliance path.
I also have a v2.2 with "limited landscape opportunity" that would like to pursue it as well, Do you or anyone else feel that we may be successful using this as an alternative compliance path for a v2.2 project? I can not locate any v2.2 CIR that would support this. THANK YOU!
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11475 thumbs up
January 25, 2011 - 2:39 pm
I would be fairly confident that this would also apply to a v2.2 project. USGBC has pretty much stopped updating the v2.2 system, but there is some precedent that changes like this for 2009 projects can also apply to v2.2. There's no way of knowing for sure without getting a CIR, or just submitting the credit (or perhaps an email to your reviewer would also do it), but it should be okay. Let us know what happens.