Our government job follows the design guidelines set forth in the United Facilities Criteria (UFC). The specific UFC that we are required to follow contains a minimum requirement for VIP parking stalls to be placed along the entrance driveway and/or the area in closest proximity to the facility. Our site layout has a very small lot that contains the handicapped stalls and VIP stalls, and this lot is the closest to the building entrance. Further away is a large parking garage that serves a majority of the facility. We are unable to locate the LEED "preferred parking" stalls in this small lot, but will locate them in the parking garage with the most convenience to the elevators/stairs/exits. Is this approach acceptable?
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Ryan Gaylord
DirectorCTG Energetics, Inc.
49 thumbs up
September 2, 2010 - 1:04 pm
Since there are special conditions that govern the parking allocations for your project, I would suggest submitting a narrative along with your credit documentation explaining the limitations for parking in the smaller lot closer to the building. If you simply cannot fit all of the required preferred spaces in this lot, it seems reasonable that these spaces could be located in the structure. As you suggested, the spaces in the structure would need to be located either on the ground level, or nearest the elevators/stairs on upper levels.