Has anyone successfully used parking lot islands planted with native vegetation to contribute toward this credit? Each island can can contribute a few hundred square feet, so it can add up to be pretty significant. At the very least, I'd say the islands would provide habitat for insects. If you don't think parking islands would count toward SSc5.1, what about SSc5.2?
Thanks!
Tristan Roberts
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December 18, 2011 - 11:50 pm
Zachary, I don't see anything in the requirements that would prevent you from doing this, but it seems quesitonable. I would ask if you are really going to go above and beyond to make these islands habitat for something(s)?
Zachary Guren
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December 19, 2011 - 8:51 am
Thanks fro the response, Tristan. As it turns out, we have enough large tracts of restored habitat that counting the parking islands won't be necessary anyway, but now it's just a matter of properly reporting the square footages and marking the areas on the site plan. I think we will probably highlight the parking islands separately and report their total square footage to show that we still meet the 50% requirement even if we didn't count them.