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Tristan Roberts
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Vermont House of Representatives
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Wed, 12/02/2009 - 16:16

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?
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Devon Bertram
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YR&G
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Tue, 12/08/2009 - 00:25

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.

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 02:01

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...?
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Devon Bertram
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YR&G
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Thu, 12/10/2009 - 18:15

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?

Thu, 12/10/2009 - 19:44

thanks Devon - all clear now. cheers

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