Our project is an Addition that will sit North of an existing school. Our LEED project scope does not include the existing building nor the existing parking lot to the south. However, we are required to add catch basins in the parking lot in accordance with the local Stormwater Ordinance as a means for picking up runoff from the parking lot and to prevent runoff from the property from spilling out directly onto the public right-of-way. Following the work needed for the catch basins, we would like to re-stripe and re-coat the parking lot to clearly mark parking stalls including the required ADA parking stalls. It is hard to see any parking stall as it is. We do not intent to add any new parking.
I have two questions?
1. Since this improvement is required by the local ordinance, must we include the parking lot in the LEED boundary?
2. We are including new landscape islands on the southernmost edge of the parking lot and will include this in the LEED boundary. Is it still ok to exclude the rest of the parking lot.
Thank you!