Hi folks,

We have an urban infill office project – LEED v4 Core and Shell.  The property line is tight to the building with publicly owned sidewalk / right of way on 3 of 4 sides (the 4th side is a neighboring building). 

In construction we will be disturbing some area around the property and rebuilding some of it in kind and some with minor improvements (additional street trees, additional bike racks).  Hence – we have a “limit of disturbance” line on our drawings which is larger-than / outside of the property line and includes public land (adjoining sidewalks and rights of way).  I know that hardscape, stormwater, etc are noted in the definition of the LEED project boundary however we generally aren’t changing these surroundings – just rebuilding them after construction.  The surrounding area will of course be used by building occupants but will not be used “primarily” by them as they are city sidewalks.  

Lots of good tips on other posts but I haven’t seen as much specifically written regarding such zero-lot-line / urban infill projects in relation to defining the LEED boundary  (apologies if I’m missing some).  For our calculations – it doesn’t really matter if the boundary is larger or smaller – I’m just trying to crowdsource some opinions on the appropriateness of using the limit-of-construction line or the property line as an appropriate LEED boundary.   Would rather not have to change this post-submission. 

Thanks for the help,

Tom