It seems that for projects with small amounts of landscape areas, which many Homes: Midrise projects would be, the performance path doesn't seem to make sense.

In my case, I have a project with 142 occupants in 65 dwelling units in a downtown location on a near zero lot line. The project will potentially have 500-1000 sqft of landscaping. Based on the Performance Path method, the baseline Outdoor Water Use for the building would be roughly 3000 gallons / month, whereas the baseline Indoor Water Use is 214,000 gallons. Even if we were to include xeriscaping on this project we would only see an additional 1.5% reduction to our overall monthly water savings, which isn't even close to achieving an additional 0.5 points.

Whereas if we follow the prescriptive path, we can achieve 4 points by simply not including turf grass and using primarily native/ adapted plants. However, you make the Water section out of 10 instead of 12.

Am I reading this correctly? Are small landscaped projects penalized for reducing outdoor water requirements?