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Tristan Roberts
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Vermont House of Representatives
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Mon, 08/30/2010 - 02:28

You can't double-count the same designated parking spot for two LEED projects.Does that answer your question?

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 15:54

The City Building Department is treating this parking area similar to a campus project. Since the new project is on the same site as the previous project, they just increased the required parking spots by (2). The lot that is adjacent to this building was already included in the previously required count, so could the existing preferred parking spots apply to the total parking requirement?
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David Posada
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SERA Architects
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Mon, 08/30/2010 - 17:06

It sounds like you'd meet the Reduced Parking Capacity part of SSc4.4, but it's unclear if you are asking about the preferred parking spaces for carpools (SSc4.4) or for low-emitting vehicles (for SSc4.3), or both. To earn both 4.3 and 4.4 for the second project, the total number of preferred parking spaces for carpools and low emitting vehicles would need to be calculated separately for each credit and for each project. Then see if you are providing that number of preferred spaces.
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Larry Jones
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Mon, 08/30/2010 - 17:16

I agree with Tristan's comment. If a project has used those parking spots to achieve a LEED certification, you cannot use the same spaces to achieve SSc4.4 in your project. It would be considered double counting. For a early local project we utilized an existing, adjacent parking structure, and the USGBC actually required our client to sign a letter stating that the campus would NOT use this same structure again for future LEED projects.

Mon, 08/30/2010 - 18:13

Hi Laurie, You might want to review page 17-19 of the LEED-NC Application Guide for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects (AGMBC): http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=1097 Lauren

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