I am pursuing option 1, preferred parking, for a building on a campus. The new parking lot expands an existing parking lot for an adjacent building. The parking count within the LEED boundary is 230 cars, but 50 were existing for the adjacent building, the project is just resurfacing that area. I am claiming 180 spaces to figure the number of preferred spaces on. Does this sound correct or should I carve the existing spaces from the LEED boundary and exclude them that way?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
November 21, 2011 - 11:49 pm
Craig, I think the better choice here is to exclude those spaces from your LEED boundary. That makes it more clear which spaces are associated with which building, and since those spaces do support the other building, I don't think you can be accused of gerrymandering (see MPR supplemental guidance doc, page 27).
Stefanie Smith
AIAStark State College
8 thumbs up
December 7, 2011 - 9:39 am
Craig,
Those 180 spaces will need to be reserved for the sole use of your LEED building.
We've had a similar situation for a campus project. We could not achieve the credit as the lot is shared and could not be dedicated for the sole use of our building. The other option would have been to designate preferred parking spaces based on the FTE for all buildings served by the lot.
Lisa Sawin
37 thumbs up
May 16, 2012 - 5:38 pm
Hi Stefanie and Tristan,
Our project is on a campus. We are not adding any new parking. The parking lots to either side of our project are not in the construction scope and are shared by multiple buildings. As they continue to expand and modify their campus these lots most likely will be modified by future LEED projects. Can I reserve spaces for LEV based on our FTE or would I need to reserve LEV based on the FTE of all buildings that share those lots?
Nelina Loiselle
Above Green239 thumbs up
June 26, 2012 - 4:49 pm
If you pursue option 1 you can reserved 5% of the total # of space for LE/FE. Even though this may be more parking spaces then used by your building, it seems that you can not only take 5% of your space unless you somehow have them specifically reserved for use of your building.