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CS-2009 SSc4.3:Alternative Transportation—Low-Emitting and Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

Preferred Parking for employees or visitors?

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mary ostafi
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Our building has 2 main entrances, one in back where the employees park and one paid lot in front where visitors and general parking is located. The majority of daily people in and out of the building park in back so our stratrgy was to place all the preferred spots there. My question is, are paid lots exempt, and if not, do we need to provide preffered spots in both lots, split 50/50? If you know of a specific CIR that addresses this please let me know.

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Tue, 09/17/2013 - 22:01

I don't know about a CIR, but my approach in this kind of situation is to reserve spaces in each lot - the intent of the credit is to incentivize employees as well as visitors to drive fuel-efficient vehicles. I try to get as close to 5% as I can in each so that bigger lots have more preferred spaces. If you have a good argument to put all the spaces in one lot you can try to submit a narrative explaining your approach but there are no guarantees that will work. I would also think that if one of your lots is paid, you could use the 20% discount approach instead if that makes more sense for your project.

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