Introduction: The David Brower Center is comprised of a small conference center, restaurant & rental office space for environmental non-profits. It is being constructed on a site containing three (3) distinct projects: The Brower Center; a residential project; and a city-owned public parking garage. The project is being constructed on the site of an existing City owned and operated surface parking lot, which currently provides public parking for local merchants. Below grade parking will be constructed to replace the City\'s surface lot, therefore the majority of the Brower Center will be built above a City of Berkeley public parking garage. There will also be a 96-unit residential project constructed adjacent to the Brower Center, also located over the parking garage. Additional parking will be dedicated to the residential project. There will be an air-space subdivision, which will legally define the city garage, the David Brower Center, and the adjacent residential project as separate deeded properties. The three properties will be owned and operated by three separate entities. Parking Requirements and Capacity: The Berkeley Zoning ordinance would typically require the Brower Center to have 68 parking spaces (1.5 spaces per 1,000 s.f. of commercial space). The City of Berkeley has waived this requirement, because of the proximity to public transportation, therefore the Brower Center is not required to include any parking and, in fact, will not construct any parking. (The project is within 600 feet of 6 bus lines and 1 subway (BART) station). Since the property will not own any associated parking, the Brower Center will enter into an agreement with the City of Berkeley to lease parking spaces in the City Garage to satisfy various aspects of SS Credit 4.3. The project is seeking approval of an alternative compliance path, based on the CIR\'s dated 1/26/05 and 9/6/05. The project team proposes the following components to meet the intent of this credit: 1) The project will achieve SSc4.1. As noted above, the project is within 600 feet of 6 bus lines and 1 subway (BART) station. This will provide ample opportunity for tenants or employees to access the site via public transportation. (per CIR dated 1/26/05) 2) The project proposes to provide one (1) hybrid (AFV) carshare vehicle to satisfy the requirement for alternative fuel vehicles. The CIR dated 9/6/05 establishes that one carshare AFV is required per every 267 FTE occupants. The Brower Center will have 132 FTE\'s and therefore will provide one (1) hybrid carshare vehicle. The project will establish a 2-year carshare agreement with either City Car Share or Zipcars. 3) Information about the car share program will be distributed to all of the building occupants, and will be available in the lobby. 4) Since the Brower Center will not construct or own any parking, the project will lease the one (1) parking space needed for the carshare program from the City owned garage that is directly below the building. The Brower Center property is approximately 85\' from the pedestrian entrance to the city garage elevator lobby. This will provide safe, convenient access to the cars in the carshare program.