Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: New Construction, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED BD+C: Schools, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell, LEED BD+C: Core and Shell

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.0, v2 - LEED 2.2, v2 - LEED 2.2, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - Schools 2007, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009, v2 - LEED 2.0, v3 - LEED 2009

Inquiry

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.