In our new project we provide 65 parking lots. To achieve the credit requirements we must provide 4 parking lots for low emitting vehicles. We provide 3 special parking lots for SMART cars. My question is can we count these SMART parking lots if we label them as low emitting parking space? The SMART parking space is not directly to the staircase but only 6 parking lots away.
The credit requirements say 5% of the total parking lots must be provide to achieve the credit requirements for preferred parking. My question is must we include the number of motorbike parking lots for the calculation?
Ryan Gaylord
DirectorCTG Energetics, Inc.
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June 6, 2011 - 12:56 pm
These are two good questions. To address the first, the intent of this credit is to encourage the use of low-emitting vehicles by all employees and visitors of the building. Without knowing any details about the SMART car program, it sounds like the use of these spaces might be limited to a certain group of users or a certain vehicle type. In general, these spaces must be made available to any drivers of qualified low-emitting vehicles in order to meet the credit intent.
To answer the second question, the credit requirements use the word "vehicles" instead of "cars," therefore one might interpret this to include motorbikes. Since motorbike parking takes up space in the parking lot that could otherwise be used for cars, the conservative approach would suggest that they should be included in the total parking count. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any precedent on this.