zip car system

Gita, if all your client is doing is hosting (merely allowing the Zip cars to be parked in his parking lot), he won't meet the requirements of the program. He has to have at least a two year contract with ZipCar and ensure that those cars meet LEED's definition of Low emitting and/or partial zero emission cars. If he does have the contract, then ensuring that he provides the correct amount of cars based on FTE (3%) will be sufficient. The credit does require that the cars are located in the nearest parking spaces available so I would interpret that to mean preferred. I believe the ride share pertains to SSc4.4 wrt Carpooling/Vanpooling.

Larry I have a LEED CI project. 5 % of FTE is required to have access to car/van pool with preferred parking. LEED counts two FTE in each car. My project is planning on having ZipCars for everybody in the office to use, 4 cars for 1100 FTE, both for private and business errands/travels. The number of cars is estimated based on another of the company’s offices. More than two people will definitely have access to each car. Where have you seen the info on a two year contract and that ZipCars will be ok at all? How do I show that 4 cars is a sufficient number to meet credit intent? Or otherwise how many cars are appropriate for credit compliance? See my thread on oct 17, 2011: http://www.leeduser.com/credit/CI-2009/SSc3.3 Thank you!