Rating System

LEED BD+C: New Construction

Rating System Version

v2 - LEED 2.2

Inquiry

This CIR pertains to a large urban redevelopment on an abandoned industrial site. Each building project within the redevelopment will be a separate LEED project. In planning the redevelopment, the developers gifted (yes, gave) to the city an area to be redeveloped as a greenway along a major waterway. This area was generally impermeable due to its previous industrial use, but it will be restored as vegetated open space. The restoration also includes instream restoration to create habitat for endangered native salmon species. The developers also gifted to the city an area to be developed as a vegetated park in the center of the district. The total planned vegetated open space (excluding courtyards and ecoroofs) within this redevelopment district, including the greenway and the park, will be 187,500 square feet. Excluding public streets and rights of way, which will be owned by the city and not the individual building sites, the total area to be developed in the district is 19.5 acres, or 457,380 square feet. The deeded open space of 187,000 sf is equivalent to 41 percent of this to-be-developed space. There is zoning in this area, but no zoning requirement for open space (the entire district is zero lot line). We propose that by providing open space equivalent to over forty percent of the development footprint, documenting the facts as stated, and applying the \'clustering\' ruling ruling from campus projects established by CIR SSc5.1 dated 9.2.03, we can qualify every project in the district for SSc5.2. Please confirm the accuracy of this analysis.