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NC-2009 SSc4.4:Alternative Transportation—Parking Capacity

Legal parking capacity vs. LEED

Greeting folks, The local code requires 1 parking spot per 100m². Our project has 17,890m², which leads to 178,9 parking spots. Not sure how LEED would face that because to comply with the legal requirement we should round this number to 179 parking spots. Would 179 comply with LEED then or should we leave 178? Those are the regular spots for cars. But the project also has spots for private buses and for trucks. Should we count those in as regular parking spots or LEED do not take those into account? Thank you for any light you can shed on that matter!

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Tristan Roberts
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Tue, 06/19/2012 - 14:05

Marcio, are you referring to the LEED requirement to provide parking not exceeding minimum zoning requirements? If so, LEED would generally want you to provide less parking, not more, so you can round down for LEED, and go lower if possible.With your question about bus and truck parking, I'd have to understand which part of the LEED requirements you're grappling with.

Tue, 06/19/2012 - 17:19

Tristan, Yes, that's the requirement I'm referring to. The problem is that, if I round down for LEED, I won't be compying with my local requirement. Still looking at the same requirement, when I'm counting this "minimum" for LEED, should I include parking for buses and trucks or I should only count the spots for cars? For instance, the minimum by law is 178,9 (which I have to round up to 179 to comply with local code) but besides these I have 10 more spots for trucks and 5 more spots for buses (this is a industrial plant). How many spots does LEED understand as my parking capacity so I can comply "not exceed minimum local code requirement", 179 or 179+10+5=194? Thanks!
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Tristan Roberts
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Tue, 06/19/2012 - 19:26

Marcio, LEED wouldn't require you to round up in this case. You only have to round up when calculating things like LE/FE parking spaces for LEED requirements. In setting the number of overall required spaces, you should follow the local rules.The same goes for the truck and bus spots—how does the local code consider them?

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