SLL Prereq 1

Peter Doo

President

Doo Consulting LLC

LEEDuser Basic Member

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February 27, 2011

I'm working on a predeveloped 95 acre site at the end of a peninsula. One drives through and existing residential neighborhood that does not have many diverse uses. The existing site was a hospital campus that will be redeveloped into mixed use. the majority of "diverse uses" will be developed on this site. Can we count the "diverse uses" entirely within our site? I assume that all of the diverse uses will have to be built and C of O's issued to get certification.

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Ted Bardacke

LEED Faculty (ND), AICP, Senior Associate, Green Urbanism

Global Green USA

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Mon, 03/07/2011 - 19:57

The answer to your question depends on what Stage of LEED-ND you are pursuing. For Stage 1 or 2, you cannot count diverse uses to be created as part of your project to be existing, as the date of existing is established at the date of LEED-ND submission. Per this definition of existing, at Stage 3 you could conceivably count uses created as part of the project as existing. However, this is a risky strategy as it: 1) may be seen as a loophole and 2) waiting until Stage 3 on ND could get you into some unforeseen trouble. I would suggest that you use another Option (1, 2, or 3) to get through SLLp1.