SS Credit: Site Development— Open Space : I like the changes to this credit, it makes it easier to understand and implement to achieve the credits intent.

Prerequisite: Landscape - Good move to making this a pre-requisite. Good move moving the establishment period to 2 years. Good job moving the peak watering month to being site specific.

This is a fantastic credit. Really focuses on ongoing performance optimization.

Option 3 is titled "Dense and Accessible Location" which implies handicap accessibility, which does not appear to be the intent of the credit.

EA PREREQUISITE: MINIMUM ENERGY PERFORMANCE - ASHRAE 2010 is a necessary move for LEED 2012. I like the reduced options. Very simple and straight forward.

I don't get the use of the word "integrative" in any of these EBOM credits. Integrative is very vague and open to broad interpretation.

Sorry, I didn't get a chance to read all of your comments before posting so I am sure you covered this, but since the USGBC is weighting these comments I figured the redundancy would be important.

EQ PREREQUISITE: MINIMUM INDOOR AIR QUALITY PERFORMANCE: No Comment, other than I look forward to improvement of consistency for reviews.

Similar to how in Location and transportation, you can achieve many points by doing a LEED ND site.

I got I bit confused with the period of time which is considered to comply with the aim of this credit. At first a thought the 10 year commitment counted from the date of the LEED certification pr