We have a major industrial development (car manufacturing plant) project.
There is a railway track going along the north perimeter of the factory. In the LEED manual its being said that: When the property line is adjacent to a public street, alley, or transit corridor, the lighting boundary may be moved to the center line of that street, alley, or corridor. Since the railway is clearly a transit corridor, can this exemption be applied?
This topic has already been discused on this forum in 2017, without a clear conclusion (the key question was revolving around whether the railway track can be considered for being public or not). Has anyone had any experience/succesful application since then?
Glenn Heinmiller
PrincipalLam Partners
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August 24, 2023 - 12:29 pm
Lenka,
In my opinion, it is appropriate to apply this exception to a railway track, even if it is not public property.
I was involved with writing this exception and I don't think we intended that it only apply to publicly owned railway tracks. The overall concept with this exemption is that we're not concerned about light trespass into the street, we are concerned about light trespass into the property on the other side of the street. The centerline location is based on the idea that the properties on either side of the street will "share" the land of the public street and their lighting boundaries will both be in the same place on the centerline. We added the word "public" because we didn't think you should be allowed to have light trespass onto a privately owned street or alley. When it came to "transit corridors" I think we just assumed that they would be part of a public transit system. We didn't think about privately owned railroads. But I think if we had thought of that, we would have changed to wording so the exemption would apply to any transit corridor -- public or private
Lenka Matějíčková
Grinity s.r.o. VAT CZ046072282 thumbs up
August 25, 2023 - 7:49 am
Hi Glenn, great, thank you for making this clear.