We are working on a project that shares a parking lot with a previous LEED certified project. The City is including that parking area in the required parking count for our project while raising the total required parking count from 30 to 32. My question is, can we still attempt to earn Credits SS4.3 and SS4.4 utilizing the same designated preferred parking spots that we submitted for the previous project. We would still have the correct 5% designated spots. Also, I assume I would have to include the entire parking lot in my new project boundry.
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11478 thumbs up
August 29, 2010 - 10:28 pm
You can't double-count the same designated parking spot for two LEED projects.Does that answer your question?
Laurie Hammack
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August 30, 2010 - 11:54 am
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?
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1980 thumbs up
August 30, 2010 - 1:06 pm
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.
Larry Jones
Associate DirectorAtelier Ten
258 thumbs up
August 30, 2010 - 1:16 pm
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.
Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
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August 30, 2010 - 2:13 pm
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