We are requesting a ruling upon which occupants shall be included in the bicycle and shower calculations for SSc4.2. A previous CIR Ruling for LEED-NC 2.1 (dated 06/04/03) stated that an international airline terminal could meet the intent of this credit by providing adequate bicycle spaces and changing/showering facilities for only the staff employees if the calculation included all staff and the project maximized alternative transportation opportunities for transient occupants. Our project, a large destination resort, has similar occupancy conditions to the above-referenced CIR Ruling that make it impractical to provide bicycle racks for the transient occupants. Our project contains the following uses: hotels, condominiums, retail shops, conference center, theater, gaming, and restaurants. As a result, we propose to identify three types of occupants in this project - employees, condominium residents, and transient guests. Our transient guests travel from around the country and the world and arrive via the airport or long distance car & bus trips. These guests are served by a variety of alternative transportation services such as monorails, city buses, a tourist trolley, and hotel shuttle buses. Consistent with the resort\'s commitment to integrating environmental sustainability into the project, we will be making a substantial investment in supporting bicycling. We are planning to provide over 300 bicycle spaces and the associated number of showers, based on our employee counts. The impact opportunity is substantial. Since the commuting characteristics of this project are similar to the airport terminal situation described in the previous CIR, with the addition of a residential component, please confirm that we can achieve this credit by providing bicycle spaces for 5% of peak on-site employees, showers for 0.5% of peak on-site employees and bicycle spaces for 15% of condominium residents.
Excluding a certain type of transient occupants from the required bicycle stall and shower calculations is permissible per previous v2.1 CIR Rulings dated 6/4/2003 and 8/7/2002. Please include a short narrative indicating the number of visitors who have been excluded from these calculations and an explanation of why this type of visitor cannot reasonably be expected to arrive at this destination on or with a bicycle that would benefit from on site storage facilities. It is not acceptable to automatically exclude all transient visitors from these calculations as it is reasonable to expect that some of the visitors to the retail shops, conference center, theater, and gaming facilities could potentially arrive on a bicycle, therefore please be certain to include these areas, when appropriate, in the bicycle stall calculations. The proposed strategy to provide bicycle stalls for 15% of condominium residents is consistent with credit requirements for residential buildings. Applicable Internationally.