Depending on your compliance path option (as chosen earlier):

Option 1: Check local codes and make sure the parking capacity for the tenant space meets but does not exceed minimum parking requirements and verify that your lease does not guarantee more than the minimum. Identify preferred parking spaces for at least 5% of your tenant occupants.
Option 2: Verify that no parking is subsidized or provided for your tenant occupants.

Case 1: Tenant Space Less Than 75% of Total Building Area

If you will be developing a carpooling program, consider making provisions for appropriate drop-off areas, distributing information about ride-sharing or vehicle-sharing, or shuttle services that connect building occupants to mass transit in the area. Think about developing a carpooling policy, defining procedures and eligibility requirements for participating in a carpooling incentive program, creating and distributing tags for vehicle identification, creating communication materials, and creating a rideshare board.

Minor administrative costs may also be associated with enforcing preferred parking spaces.

There are no “LEED Police.” The preferred parking spaces required for non-residential buildings are largely based on the honor system and the integrity of building management and users. Consider incorporating an enforcement mechanism that will ensure carpool parking spaces are not abused. To ensure that preferred parking polices are respected, consider the following strategies:

“Preferred parking” refers to designated spaces located nearest the building entrance (thus “preferable” over other spaces), covered, or at a discount price, but not providing preference over disable parking. Preferred parking spaces must be clearly designated, for example with a sign that states “Carpool and vanpool parking only.”

The required number of preferred parking spaces for carpool or vanpool spaces is based on the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) occupants—either tenant occupants or building occupants—depending on the amount of space you occupy in the building (decided by choosing Case 1 or Case 2, above). 

Research specific products. Incorporate reused materials requirements into individual construction specifications.

Revisit your baseline materials budget as the design evolves to make sure that the numbers remain accurate and that you’re on track to achieve your goal for the credit.

For rehabilitation projects, adding no new parking is the easiest way to earn this credit. However, you will have to provide preferred parking spaces for carpools and vanpools to 5% of total building occupants in order to earn the credit.