We have two questions regarding this credit as it applies to our project: 1. Based on several CRIs, including the 9/10/2007, we understand that in principle as long as 90% or more of the total building area complies with the LEED requirement for the shower requirements and 100% of the building occupants are accounted for in the bicycle parking calculations, the credit intent is met and credit will be awarded. This is also supported by the LEED Canada NC 1.0 Application Guide For Core And Shell Buildings And Leased Tenant Spaces. It states that "To achieve LEED Canada NC certification, the base building and owner fit-up tenant spaces must be fit-up to comply with the LEED Canada NC requirements. In addition, sufficient leased tenant space must demonstrate that it has or will comply with the LEED Canada NC requirements so that overall 90% of the total building area complies with the LEED requirements." This 10% exemption recognizes the difficulty in getting multiple tenants to comply with LEED requirements. We see this as a good precedent to seek an exception for the small tenant spaces that occupy less than 10% of the overall area of the project. Our project is a single tenant class A office building which has about 1% of the total GFA leased out to two very small retail units that are not part of the otherwise single tenant building. These small retail units will have their own bathrooms and their occupants are counted in the overall building bicycle parking calculations, but they do not have dedicated showers as this poses a serious security risk for the primary tenant (a Bank). Can you confirm that the above understanding of the exclusions up to 10% of the GFA for the shower component of the credit is consistent with previous CIR rulings and is acceptable in pursuing this credit? 2. The other part of the question deals with locating shower and bicycle storage off site but within 200 yards. Our LEED Project meets the criteria for this as the Head Offices of this Bank is just down the street with gym facilities including showers. What we would like confirmation whether the sizing of the shower facilities and bicycle racks needs to be based on the occupancies of BOTH buildings or just our project that is pursuing LEED certification. The numbers are as follows: Our LEED Project: There are 436 Full Time Equivalent Staff and 119 Visitors. Head Office 200 yards away: Full Time Staff at Head Office is 516 persons. If we were to provide bicycle storage only for our LEED Project we would only need 22 racks for full time staff plus 6 more for visitors = 28 racks total, and 3 showers ( 1 for every 8 racks serving full time staff only) If we were to provide showers and bicycle rack for BOTH facilities, using only use the Full Time Staff numbers from both facilities, the calculation is as follows: 436 at LEED Project + 516 at Head Office = 952 Full Time Staff x 5% = 48 bicycle racks (rounded up) Showers are counted at 1 shower per 8 bicycle racks, therefore 6 showers would be required to serve BOTH building\'s full time staff. Based on this scenario, we understand that accommodating for 48 bicycle racks and 6 showers at Head Office should fulfill the credit intent and requirements, but seems like it is overkill. Previous CIRs indicated that in such cases, visitor transient populations can be omitted from the calculations. We would like to think this is applicable in this case since we would be almost doubling the shower and bicycle rack requirements. Please confirm if we should base our calculations assuming providing racks and showers for BOTH buildings (our LEED Project and Head Office) full time staff only (excluding visitors), or it is enough to provide only 28 racks and 3 showers to serve our LEED project only.