This retail space is aprox 2000ft2 and has more spaces (6) allocated to it than code requires.
How does LEED separate the discouragement of single use vehicles for full-time employees and the need for providing convenient parking for customers?
Is it as simple as signage showing customer and employee parking?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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December 2, 2009 - 11:16 am
Alex, LEED-CI SSc3.3 does not look at who is using the parking — it only looks at how much parking the project has, relative to the minimum required by zoning.
In other words, it doesn't give you an "out" if you want to focus on limiting parking for staff while providing lots of parking for customers.
Does that answer your question? Are you seeing something about signage somewhere?
Devon Bertram
Sustainability ManagerYR&G
214 thumbs up
December 7, 2009 - 7:25 pm
The retail rating system requirements for SSc3D only focuses on having 5% of employee parking designated as preferred carpool parking (as it may not be likely / make sense to have customers carpool). As for appropriate signage to help communicate meeting these requirements, the project can designate an area specifically for employee parking, and within this area have the preferred carpool signage for 5% of these spaces. All other parking can include signage designated for customers only.
Alex Warburton
24 thumbs up
December 9, 2009 - 9:01 pm
thanks Tristan - i think that answers it. I didn't see anything about signage, no...i think i may have been just projecting hope
Devon - i'm a bit confused by the wording you used "The retail rating system requirements" . I don't see anything in CI that singles retail out as anything different.
The way i read it, we need to have both limited overall parking (no more than code) as well as the carpool priority. Our space is less that 75%, BTW.
I'd prefer to be wrong...?
Devon Bertram
Sustainability ManagerYR&G
214 thumbs up
December 10, 2009 - 1:15 pm
Alex, I didn't mean to confuse things - there is a LEED rating system particular to retail that is currently in the balloting phase (LEED for Retail-NC and LEED for Retail-CI). If your project is registered under LEED CI then you would need to comply with the CI requirements.
Does that clarify things?
Alex Warburton
24 thumbs up
December 10, 2009 - 2:44 pm
thanks Devon - all clear now.
cheers