Preferred Parking strategies

Michelle Raigosa

President

Design Management Services

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June 23, 2010

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Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

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Fri, 06/25/2010 - 02:37

Preferred parking refers to desirable parking spaces near the building entrance. If those are located in the aboveground lot, then I would say that the garage does not need to (perhaps even should not) contain preferred parking.

Michelle Raigosa

President

Design Management Services

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Fri, 06/25/2010 - 14:12

I tend to agree - the MAIN building entrances are better served with the preferred parking as opposed to a limited access garage at the bottom of the structure. I will keep you posted! Thank you!

Michelle Raigosa

President

Design Management Services

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Tue, 08/31/2010 - 19:05

Tristan- As promised I wanted to keep you posted of this challenge. We ended up submitted a CIR proposing the preferred parking for the garage should be calculated as a percentage of parking. For example, for the CS project 5% of total parking is required to be reserved for LEFE vehicles. In the CIR, we proposed 5% of garage and 5% of surface lot to be reserved for these vehicles. This strategy was approved :)

Susann Geithner

Principal

Emerald Built Environments

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Tue, 02/08/2011 - 14:59

We submitted this credit for review about 6 months ago and have been asked to submit photos of the signs for the final review. I would definitely do the signs, not just the striping.

Julie Hendricks

President

Sage Building Revival

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Thu, 09/29/2011 - 14:28

Just a note, we have a achieved this credit with striped spaces only (no sign) for a number of Core & Shell (and NC) projects. Offhand, I would say we've submitted this at least 10 times and been approved.