Given how a project boundary is supposed to be defined, either the project side of the right of way or the far side (non-project side) of the right-of-way, for this credit how do you deal with transit stops that clearly serve / are needed to serve the development, but will be in the public right of way but not the "within the project boundary" (if you define the project boundary to not include the right-of-way)?
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Eliot Allen
LEED AP-ND, PrincipalCriterion Planners
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November 30, 2015 - 6:13 pm
Ian, responding to your parenthetical comment, project boundaries can include only bordering rights-of-way and not land beyond the ROW. This is illustrated in Figure 1 of the Reference Guide Getting Started chapter about midway down on the left side of the example where the boundary crosses a street but then doesn't include any of the opposing block.
To your question about transit stops located outside a boundary, if they're part of the project's transit walkshed delineated under SLL Access to Quality Transit, and if the transit agency concurs in the need for facility upgrades due to project impacts, then I'd assert they're eligible under Transit Facilities despite the credit language about "stops within the...boundary." I'd read that as '...at a minimum, stops within the boundary, and not excluding stops beyond the boundary but in the walkshed.' It would be illogical to award up to 7 SLL points for quality service at walkshed stops, and then deny some of those stops NPD points for facility upgrades.
That said, because of the language if this credit is critical you should consult USGBC staff to see if they agree with my interpretation, or there's the CIR path to certainty.
Eliot