The local regulation requires certain building footprint setback from site boundary. This rules quantity of open space (can be either vegetated or not vegetated). There is another local regulation that demand certain amount of vegetated open space within the site boudary.
Based on this condition, which case can this project be considered under?
Is is considered under case 1 and we use the regulation of vegetated open space and provide 25% more vegetated open space to score the point?
The confussion here is that: how if there is local regulation for both open space (need not be vegetated) and for vegetated open space ? My project has both regulation. Which one should i use?
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David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
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October 4, 2010 - 10:59 am
The regulation for vegetated open space is probably the more appropriate one to use here. The intent of setbacks was originally to reduce the chance of fire from spreading between buildings, and later became a way to influence light, density, massing, street scape, etc. So even though setbacks do create a quantity of open space, if there is another regulation that specifically address the quantity of vegetated space i would use that since that's my interpretation of what the credit is trying to address.