Our Project consists of land that is property of the owner. Part of the property is private but part of the property will be publicly accesible (although owned by the Project owner) and the owner has the obligation to maintain the área. The part will be impacted in the sense that it is a vegetated área that will be landscaped with trees and an irrigation system.
Question is: Can we include that área in the LEED boundary knowing it will later be "public".
Also, the Project has a parking on the land which is property of the owner. Next to the Project, there is another parking that does not belong to the owner and is public, but the owner has the obligation to maintain it and they will use it. Can we include that part of the parking in the leed boundary, although it is not part of the owner property.
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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March 12, 2013 - 7:36 pm
Emmanuel, LEED is not really concerned with how a site is going to be used in terms of public vs. private. What LEED does care about is listed under the requirements above.The parking is a little more nuanced. Is the parking part of the scope of project work? Does it support normal operations of the building? Check the guidance above and post back here with additional questions and comments.
Emmanuel Pauwels
OwnerGreen Living Projects
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March 13, 2013 - 4:16 am
Tristian,
thanks for your comment. I undestand the landscaping area may be included.
The parking is an existing parking and is not part of the scope of work.
The owner will construct their own parking (adjacent to the existing one) but they will also use the existing parking (which they do not own but which they will use in addition to their private one)
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
March 13, 2013 - 9:33 am
The case can easily be made to exclude the existing parking from the LEED project boundary.