Hello We have an NC project on an existing campus. Campus Recreation Center. The project itself only has a small parking lot although daily visitors could be in the hundreds the parking is mainly for service and staff. The visitors park all over campus and many walk or ride bikes. No parking is being added to the project and most certainly the amount of parking would be well below what a gym, pool and rec center would have as suggested parking according to the Transit Guide. In my experience GBCI review teams want you to count all the parking that Could be used by the project. Common sense would say we can pursue the credit with no added parking and by adding Green Vehicle parking we will be reducing further the normal open parking count of the very limited parking. Does this seem like a path to achieving the credit?
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March 13, 2019 - 5:18 pm
Hi Lou, I have been documenting this credit based on the Campus Guidance for "Master Site" (https://www.usgbc.org/resources/leed-campus-guidance) - using the entire number of campus parking spaces and indicating what percentage below the base ratios recommended by the Parking Consultants Council, Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Transportation Planning Handbook noted in the Reference Guide (Table 1 for Schools, 0.4/school population) the entire school complies. Most commuter-based schools will not comply.
You *could* simply identify your LEED Project Boundary (LPB) based on the small parking lot, but then you really wouldn't be including ALL the parking available to users of the project. But as visitors, you mentioned, are the ones parking far away, you could omit their parking. (Green Vehicles would be another credit pursuit, but certainly feasible with the smaller LPB - but again, it's all about users of the building and how the boundary should include the areas used to support the project - aka parking included.)