My understanding of this credit's intent is to reduce the impact of automobiles for commuters. Our project, a commerical office building, has a parking garage off site for commuters, but is adding 6 parking spaces on the buildings lower floor for vehicles owned by the county. Does anyone have any experience or insight as to whether or not we can still use the "no new parking" option seeing as these spots are not for employee or visitor vehicles?

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Helen Kessler

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HJKessler Associates

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Wed, 01/29/2014 - 21:05

It is my understanding that parking spaces for fleet vehicles would not be counted as parking for the purposes of this credit.

Crina Bosch

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Karpinski Engineering

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Thu, 01/30/2014 - 14:01

Thank you Helen! However, I meant to post this question for SSc4.4... any advice there?

Helen Kessler

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HJKessler Associates

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Thu, 01/30/2014 - 16:22

Regarding SSc4.4, if you can prove that the parking is for fleet only, you may be able to argue that there is no new parking. However, this is a commercial office building, presumably with a number of tenants. It sounds like one of the tenants, the county, asked for parking spaces, so I'm not sure if you could make the argument that there are no new parking spaces. At some point, the tenant could move and those parking spaces would no longer be for their owned vehicles. Since I don't know the whole circumstance, it's hard to give a definitive answer.

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