Hello, I have a question about how sidewalk is defined.

We have a sidewalk along the street edge of a park, and the park has a playground in it. The City has requested that we provide a fence between the roadway and the sidewalk for safety reasons. So the configuration would be: roadway, curb, fence (in landscaped area), sidewalk, park. The sidewalk would still be continuous to the rest of the sidewalks, one would just not be able to get to the sidewalk from the roadway for the part adjacent to the park.

The description in the LEED reference guide notes that protection of the pedestrian area is encouraged, I just want to make sure fencing it off won't discount this section from our sidewalk calculations.

I hope that is clear,
Thanks
Tyler