Tenant is relocating to a landmark San Francisco high-rise building with limited space for additional bicycle racks and storage. Building management policy is to allow tenants to take bicycles up to their floor via a service elevator through the basement garage since it can accommodate only about half of the necessary bike storage facilities in the garage (48 bike racks for approximately 1,800 total building employees). Since the same building has no showers, and it would be a physical and financial challenge to construct them within the tenant\'s space, the tenant will purchase basic club memberships at a physical fitness/health club offering lockers and showers located within 200 yards for all employees riding their bicycles to work. These memberships will be free to the employees. Documentation will consist of letters from building management and tenant confirming bike access and floor storage policies; copy of agreement with fitness/health club; and site map indicating physical distance from tenant\'s building entrance to the fitness/health club facility. We believe that this strategy will meet the intent of the credit by taking advantage of existing facilities and support policies without expending additional valuable construction resources.
Yes, the project\'s approach to achieving this credit appears to meet the credit intent and requirements. This project will earn this credit provided that the team (1) provide calculations that 5% of the FTE Occupancy has access to secure storage area(s) for bicycles; (2) submit a site and/or floor plan showing the location and type of the bike storage facilities as well as a narrative of how these facilities will be secured per the credit requirements (the storage facilities can be in the garage, on the tenant floor, or a combination of the two); and (3) per the LEED CI v2.0 SSc3.2 ruling dated 9/28/2005 and the CI Reference Guide, the approach to providing showers is acceptable as long as all the provisions described within that CIR are met. Applicable Internationally.