On CS V2.0.
According to my Country's local zoning requirements, you should build a maximum of 70% of the total land, but if you have pervious paving you can count that as open space. So you could have 100% of the property with a pervious paving and you still meet the requirement.
So according to Option 1, I should exceed by 25% the LZR.
Clearly the intent of the credit is to have vegetated open space. But there is a conflict on the definition of open space cause it reads: "is the property area minus the development footprint OR AS DEFINED BY LOCAL ZONING REQUIREMENTS". The conflict is because for my LZR, pervious paving is open space and for LEED it would count as part of the development area, but at the same time according to the upper case definition, it is fine because you are meeting LZR.
So what should I do, should I count pervious paving as open space or not??
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11475 thumbs up
September 29, 2010 - 9:59 pm
Does it affect your credit compliance? I would consider the intent of the credit and tty to not count the paving as open space, at least not all of it.The following piece of the credit language also seems very relevant here:For projects in urban areas that earn SS Credit 2. Development Density
and Community Connectivity, pedestrian-oriented hardscape areas can
contribute to credit compliance. For such projects, a minimum of 25% of
the open space counted must be vegetated.
javier bolanos zeledon
243 thumbs up
September 30, 2010 - 12:03 pm
Yest it does affect my credit compliance.
Thanks for your advise.
Regards.