Does open grid pavement (at least 50% pervious) count as vegetated area in this credit?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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April 8, 2013 - 2:10 pm
Can you be more specific? Some open-grid paving has vegetation in it; some doesn't.The credit is looking at landscape area. Paved area is excluded. I think open-grid paving could go either way, depending, again, on specifics.
Alicia Villanueva
CEORevitaliza consultores
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April 11, 2013 - 11:11 am
The open-grid pavement is in the parking lot.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
April 11, 2013 - 11:18 am
Alicia, since you didn't mention vegetation, I'm going to assume that it is not vegetated, and should not be counted as vegetated area.
Nadia Ayala
Architect / LEED AP BD+CKILTIK Consultoría
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April 11, 2013 - 11:20 am
Hi Alicia,
based on some reviewer comments I've had in the past, I'd say that open grid pavement would count towards this particular credit (I imagine is "adopasto"), since it does have vegetation that will need to be irrigated, but it doesn't account for vegetated area in the Protect and restore habitat credit for sure.
Alicia Villanueva
CEORevitaliza consultores
76 thumbs up
April 11, 2013 - 1:28 pm
Plants grow naturally in "adopasto", but the area is not seeded. We will provide pictures in order to argue this.
Thanks for your help.