EV space accessibility

Lawrence Rennell

Rennell Associates, LLC

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United States

October 9, 2023

Do all EV spaces required to be available to the general public? We are working on a project with parking spaces located within a restricted access area that will not be accessible to the general public.

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Deborah Lucking

Director of Sustainability

Fentress Architects

LEEDuser Expert

224 thumbs up

Tue, 10/10/2023 - 14:15

Each type of parking should have EV spaces - so there should be EV spaces in the restricted access area, as well as in any non-restricted access areas if provided.

Dave Hubka

Practice Leader - Sustainability

EUA

LEEDuser Expert

510 thumbs up

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 16:02

We've been successful with ensuring the percentage threshold has been met for total parking - and were not required to distribute to the various parking areas of the project. GBCI seems to be a little leniant on this one....at least on some of our projects. Anyone receive other direction from their LEED reviews? Thanks!

Michelle Bombeck

Associate Principal

O'Brien360

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24 thumbs up

Wed, 03/13/2024 - 15:36

I had it stuck in my brain that EV stations had to be proportionately distributed if there was restricted/assigned parking. Looking back through the v4 Reference Guide, I see these requirements for preferred parking but nothing about the EV station locations. v4.1 doesn't seem to address it at all either. Has anyone had consistent success NOT proportionately allocating?