Our project is a new classroom building, on a college campus, whereby no new parking is being built or provided. All building occupants will need to park in existing parking garages, near by, on campus. Will providing LEFEV spaces based on the total number of spaces in the existing garage, closest to the project be an acceptable approach to meeting SSc4.3 and 4.4 and/or is it possible to meet the intent of this credit by providing LEFEV spaces for 5% of FTE's of our project? Does anybody have experience with either approach?
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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July 14, 2014 - 8:14 pm
Jason, the scenario you're talking about here would be Option 1 of this credit, SSc4.3. To earn this option you need to provide the preferred parking onsite. That in turn means that you have to include the parking in your LEED project boundary. It sounds like for this project that might not make sense. I would recommend looking at one of the other options for earning this credit, or forgoing it.
Kathryn West
LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Green Globes ProfessionalJLL
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October 7, 2014 - 2:07 pm
Please see the Supplemental Guide to the Minimum Program Requirements document.
"Occasionally, project buildings use facilities (e.g. parking lots) that are outside of the LEED project boundary as part of their calculations [for] the parking [...] credits. [...] This is allowable when the facilities serve the LEED project, and at least one of the following two conditions is met:
a) the facilities are not part of the LEED construction scope
b) the facilities are physically separate from the LEED project by land not owned by the LEED project owner (or, if on a campus, physically separate such that the inclusion of the facilities in the LEED project boundary would be difficult or unreasonable
If the facilities meet one of these conditions, they may be excluded from the LEED project boundary"
looks like you meet condition A so you can go for this credit.