We have a Residential project in New York City (complies with credit SS 2), and the ground level is a small amount of retail and a community space. There are two outdoor terraces that have the right amount of square footage to comply with this credit, however the issue is in if it needs to be accessible to everyone. The FTE of the retail and community space are less than 7% of the rest of the building FTE. Our client would like the terraces to only be accessible to the residents and not to this other 7% FTE. Since the majority of the building is for the residents, is this acceptable? Has anyone had a similar issue and solution? Thank you.

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Justin Southwick

BuildingsGreened

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Fri, 07/31/2015 - 19:46

Any reply to Ilana's question above? I have a substantially similar scenario about accessibility of open space to the general public or primarily the project's residents. A portion of our open space that meets the 20% requirement is well to the interior of the building & project boundary (interior courtyard, pool deck, patio space). Our non-residential FTE's are <3% of total project FTE's. Thank you.

Pamela Mendez

WSP

LEEDuser Expert

5 thumbs up

Tue, 02/09/2016 - 23:31

Can someone please advise on Ilana's question above!

Cynthia Estrada

LEED AP BD&C

SDS Architects, Inc.

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Wed, 02/10/2016 - 15:25

It seems to me that the intent of the credit provides the information. I don't see anywhere where it says these open spaces need to be accessible to any or all occupants. While it would be nice to provide that connection to the outdoors to all my interpretation is to promote biodiversity.

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