Leed V2.2 Site Selection

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How many points can you get from Site Selection?

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14

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What is the prerequisite for Site Selection?

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Construction Activity Pollution Prevention

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What is SS credit 1?

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Site Selection

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What is SS credit 2?

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Development Density & Community Connectivity

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What is SS credit 3?

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Brownfield Redevelopment

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What is SS credit 4.1?

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Alternative Transportation - Public Tranpsortation Access

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What is SS credit 4.2?

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Alternative Transportation - Bicycle Storage & Changing Rooms

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What is SS credit 4.3?

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Alternative Transportation - Low-emitting & fuel efficient vehicles

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What is SS credit 4.4?

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Alternative Transportation - Parking Capacity

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What is SS credit 5.1?

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Site Development - Protect and restore habitat

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What is SS credit 5.2?

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Site Development - Maximize Open Space

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What is SS credit 6.1?

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Stormwater Management - Quantity Control

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What is SS credit 6.2?

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Stormwater Management - Quality Control

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What is SS credit 7.1?

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Heat Island Effect - Non-roof

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What is SS credit 7.2?

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Heat Island Effect - Roof

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What is SS credit 8?

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Light pollution reduction

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What is the intent for SS pre-requisite?

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Reduce pollution from construction activites by controlling soil erosion, waterway sedimentation and airborne dust generation

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What is the intent for SS credit 1?

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Avoid development of inapporpriate sites and reduce the environmental impact from the location of a building on a site.

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What is the intent for SS credit 2?

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Channel Development to urban areas with existing infrastructure, protect greenfields and preserve habitat and natural resources.

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What is the intent for SS credit 3?

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Rehabilitate damaged sites where development is complicated by environmental contamination, reducing pressure on undeveloped land.

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What is the intent for SS credit 4.1-4.3?

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Reduce pollution and land development impacts from automobile use.

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What is the intent for SS credit 4.4?

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Reduce pollution and land development impacts from single occupancy vehicle use.

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What is the intent for SS credit 5.1?

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Conserve existing natural areas and restore damaged areas to provide habitat and promot biodiversity.

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What is the intent for SS credit 5.2?

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Provide a high ratio of open space to development footprint to promote biodiversity.

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What is the intent for SS credit 6.1?

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Limit disruption of natural hydrology by reducing impervious cover, increasing on-ste infiltration, and managing stormwater runoff.

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What is the intent of SS credit 6.2?

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Reduce or eliminate water pollution by reducing impervious cover, increasing onsite infiltration, eliminating sources of contaminants, and removing pollutants from stormwater runoff.

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What is the intent of SS credit 7.1-7.2?

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Reduce heat islands( thermal gradient differneces between developed and undeveloped areas) to minimize impact on microclimate and human and wildlife habitat.

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What is the intent of SS credit 8?

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Minimize light trespass from the building and site, reduce sky-glow to increase night sky access, improve nightime visibility through glare reduction, and reduce development impact on nocturnal environments.

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What are the requirements for prerequisite SS1: Construction Activity Pollution Prevention?

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1) Prevent loss of soil by stormwater/wind during construction, including stockpiling topsoil. 2) Prevent Sedimentation of Stormsewer or receiving streams. 3) Prevent Polluting the air with dust or particulate matter.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for prerequisite SS 1: Construction Activity Pollution Prevent?

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Create an Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan during design phase, include employing muclh, seeding, earth dikes, silt fence, sedimentation traps and basins

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 1: Site Selection?

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Do not develop buildings, hardscapes, roads or parking areas on:
prime farmland, previously undeveloped land lower that 5ft of 100 yr flood elevation, land for habitats, within 100 ft if wetlands, previously undeveloped land within 50 ft if water, parkland.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for SS Credit 1: Site Selection?

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During Site selection process, give preference to those sites which aren't sensitive or restricted land types.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 2: Site Selection?

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Option 1 - construct or renovate building AND in a community in a minimum density of 60,000 sf per acre net. Option 2 - Construct or renovate a building on previously developed site within .5 mile of residential zone with 10 units per acre, and w/ .5 mile of at least 10 basic services & w/ pedestrian access to btwn building and services.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for SS Credit 2: Site Selection?

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During site selection process, give preference to urban sites with pedestrian access to a variety of services.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 3: Site Selection?

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Develop on a site documented as contaminated (ASTM E1903-97 Phase II) or on a site defined as a brownfield by local, state or federal government agency.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for SS Credit 3: Site Selection?

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During Site Selection process, give preference to brownfield sites. Identify tax incentives and property tax savings. Coordinate with remediation activity.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 4.1: Public Transportation Access?

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Locate the building within .5 mile of a existing, planned and funded, commuter rail, railway, or subway station. Locate the project w/ 1/4 mile of one or more stops for two or more public or campus bus lines usable by occupants.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for SS Credit 4.1: Public Transportation Access?

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Perform a transportation survey of futre building occupants to identify transportation needs. Site the building near mass transit.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 4.2: Bicycle Storage & Changing Rooms?

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For commercial or residential buildings, provide secure bicycle racks to 5% of all building users, AND provide shower and changing facilties within at least 200ft of building for .5% of FTE. Residential buildings allow 15% bicycle rack storage in lieu of shower.

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What are the potential technologies and strategies for SS Credit 4.2: Bicycle Storage & Changing Rooms.

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Design the building with transportation amenities such as bicycle racks and showers.

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What are the requirements for SS credit 4.3: Low-Wmission & Fuel Efficient Vehicles?

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Option 1 - provide low-emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles for 3% of FTE and provide preferred parking for these vehicles. OPTION 2 - provide prefered parking for low-emitting and fuel-efficient vehicles for 5% of th total vehicle parking capacity of the site. OPTION - install alternative-fuel refueling stations for 3% of the total vehicle parking capacity of the site.

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What are the potential technologies & strategies for SS credit 4.3: Low-Emission & Fuel Efficient Vehicles?

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Provide transportation amenitites such as alternative fuel refueling stations. Consider sharing the costs and benefits of refueling stations with neighbors.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 4.4: Parking Capacity?

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1) size parking capacity to not exceed minimum local zoning requirements and provide referred parking for carpools or vanpools for 5% of the total provided parking spaces. 2) for projects that provide parking for less than 5% of FTE building occupatns, provide preferred parkng for carpools or vanpools for 5% of total provided parking spaces. 3) size parking capacity to not exceed minimu local zoning requirements, and provide infrastructure and support programs to facilitate shared vehicle usage. 4) provide no new parking.

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What are the potential technologies & Strategies for SS Credit 4.4: Parking Capacity?

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Minimize parking lot/garage size. Consider sharing parking facilities iwth adjacent buildings. Consider alternatives that will limit the use of single occupancy vehicles.

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What are the requirements for SS Credit 5.1: Protect or restore habitat?

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On green field sites, limit all site disturbance to 40 ft beyond perimeter, 10 ft beyond surface walkways, patios, parking, and utlities les than 12" diameter. 15' feet beyond primary road curbs and main utility branch trehcnhes and 25' beyond constructed areas with permeable surfaces.OR on previously developed or graded sites, restore or protect a minimum of 50% of the iste area with native or adapted vegetations.

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What are the potential technologies & strategues for SS credut 5.1: Protect or Restore Habitat?

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On greenfield sites, perform a site survey to identify site elements and adopt a master plan for development of the project site. Carefully site the building to minimize its footprint.. Strategies include stacking the building program, tuck-under parking and sharing facilitites with negihbors.

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Special connection between SS Credit 2 and SS credit 5.1?

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Projects earning SS credit 2 and using vegetated roof surfaces may apply the vegetated roof surface to this calculation if the plants meet the definition of native/adapted in which case the requirement is 20% of the total site area including the building foot pring. This option is intended for urban sites with little or no building setback.

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What are the requirements for SS credit 5.2: Maximize open space?

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1) reduce the development footprint. and/or provide vegetated open space withing the project boundary to exceed the local zonings open space requirement for the sity by 25%. 2) for areas with no local zoning requirements, provide vegetated open space area adjacent to the building that is equal to the building footprint. 3) where a zoning ordinance exists, but there is no requirement for open space, provide vegetated open space equal to 20% of the project's site.

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What are the potential technologies & strategies for SS credit 5.2: Maximize open space?

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Perform a site survey to identify site elements and adopt a master plan for development of the project site. Select a suitable building location and design the building with a minimal footprint to minimize site disruption.

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Special connections between SS Credit 2 and SS Credit 5.2

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For projects located in urban areas that earn SS Credit 2, vegetated roof areas can contribute to credit compliance. For project located in urban areas taht earn SS credit 2, pedestrian oriented hardscape areas can contribute to credit compliance. For such projects, a minimum of 25% of the open space counted must be vegetated. Wetlands or naturally designed ponds may count as open space if the side slope gradients average 1:4 or lass and are vegetated.

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What are the requirements for SS credit 6.1: Quantity Control?

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1) where existing imperviousnes is <50%, implement a stormwater management plan that prevents the post-developmnet peak discharge rate and quantity from exceeding the pre-development peak discharge rate and quantity for the one and two-year 24 hr design storms or implement a stormwater mgmt plan that protects receiving stream channels from excessive erosion by implementing a stream channel protection strategy and quantity control strategies. 2) Imperviousness is >50%, implement a stormwater managemetn plan that results ina 25% decrease in the volume of stormwater runoff from the two-year, 24 hr design storm.

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What are the potential technologies & strategies fro ss credit 6.1: Quantity Control?

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Design the project site to maintain natural stormwater flows by promoting infiltration. Specify vegetated roofs, pervious paving, and other measures to minimize impervious surfaces. Reuse stormwater volumes generated for non-potable uses such as landscape irrigation, toilet and urinal flushing and custodial uses.

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What are the requirements for SS credit 6.2: Quality Control?

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Implement a stormwater mgmt plan that reduces impervious cover, promotes infiltration, and captures and treats the stormwater runoff from 90& of the average annual rainfall using acceptable best mgmt practices. BMPs used to treat runoff must be capable of removing 80& or the average annual post development total suspended solids based on existing monitoring reports.

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What are the potential technologies & strategies for ss credit 6.2: Quality Control?

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Use alternative surfaces and nonstructural techniqes to reduce imperviousness and promot infiltration thereby reducing pollutant loadings. Use sustainable design strategies to design integrated natural and mechanical treatment systems such as constructed wetlands, vegetated filters, and ope channels to treat stormwater runoff.

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What are the requiremetns for SS credit 7.1: Heat Island Effect Non Roof?

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1) Provide any combination fo the following strategies for 50% of the site hardscape(including roads, sidewalks, courtyards and parking lots: shade (withing 5yrs of occupancy), paving materials with solar reflectance index of at least 29, open grid pavement system. 2) place a minimum of 50% of parking spaces under cover (defined as underground, underdeck, under roof, or under a building. Any roof used to shade or cover parking must ahve an SRI of at least 29

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What are the potential technologies & strategies for SS credit 7.1: Heat Island Effect Non-Roof?

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Shade constructed surfaces on the site with landscape features and utilize high-reflectance materials for hardscape. Consider replacing constructed surfaces with vegetated surfaces such as vegetated roofs and open grid paving or specify high-albedo materials to reduce the heat absorption.

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What are the requirements of SS credit 7.2: Heat Island Effect - Roof?

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1) Use a roofing materials having a sRI equal to or greater than the values low steepd roof (<2:12)> 78 or stepp slope (>2:12)>29. 2) install a vegetated roof for at least 50% of the roof area. 3) install high albedo and vegetated roof surfaces that, in combination meet the equation in book pg 97.

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What are the potential technologies & strategies of SS credit 7.2: Heat Island Effect -Roof?

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Consider installing high-albedo and vegetated roofs to reduce heat absorption. SRI is calculated according to ASTME E 1980. Reflectance is measured according to ASTM E 903, ASTM E1918 or ASTM C 1549. Emittance is measured according to ASTM E408 or ASTM C 1371.

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What are the interior requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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The angle of maximum candela from each interior luminaire as located in the building shall intersect opaque building interior surfaces and not exit out through the windows or all non-emergency interior lighting shall be automatically controlled to turn off during non-business hours. Provide manual override capability for after hours use.

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What are the exterior requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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Only light areas as required for safety and comfort. Do not exceed 80% of the lighting power densities for exterior areas and 50% for building facades and landscape features as defined in ASHRAE?IESNA standard 90.1-2004, Exterior LIghting Section, Without amendments. All projects shall be classified under one of the following zones, as defined in IESNA RP-33, and shall follow all of the requirements for that specific zone:

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What are the LZ1- Dark(park and rural settings) requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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Design exterior lighting so that all site and building mounted luminaires produce a maximum initial illuminance value no greater than .01 horizontal and vertical footcandles at the site boundary and beyond. Document that 0% if the total initial designed fixture lumens are emitted at an angle of 90 degress or higher fom nadir(straight down)

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What are the LZ2 -Low (residential areas) requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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Design exteriror lighting so that all site and building mounted luminaires produce a maximum initial illuminance value no greater than .1 horizontal and vertical footcandles as the site boundary and not greater than .01 horizontal footcandles 10 ft beyond the iste boudnary. Document that no more than 2% of the total initial designed fixture lumens are emitted at an angle of 90 degrees or higher from nadir. For site boundaries that abut public rights-of-ways, light trespass requirements may be met relatvie to the curb line instead of the site boundary.

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What are the LZ3 -Medium (Commercial/Industrial, High-Density Residential) requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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Design exteriro lighting so that all site and building mounted luminaires produce a maximium intitial illuminance value no greater tahn .2 horizontal and vertical footcandles at the site boundary and not greater than .01 horizontal footcandles 15 ft beyond the site. Document thatno more than 5% of the total initial designed fixuture lumens are emitted at an angle of 90 degrees or higher from nadir. For site boudnaries that abut public rights-of-way, light trespas srequirements may be met relatvie to the curb line instead of the site boundary.

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What are the LZ4-High (requirements for SS credit 8: Light Pollution Reduction?

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Design exteriror lighting so that all site and building mounted luminaires produce a maximum initial illuminance value no greater than .6 horizontal and vertical footcandles at the site boundary and no greater tahn .01 horizontal footcandles 15ft beyond the site. Document that no more than 10% of the total initial desinged site lumens are emitted at an angle of 90 degrees or higher from nadir. For site boundaries that abut public rights-of-way, light trespass requirements may be met relatvie to the curb line instead of the site boundary.

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Waht are the potential technologies & strategies for SS credit 8 - Light Pollution Reduction?

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Adopt site lighting criteria to maintain safe light levels while avoiding off-site lighting and night sky pollution. Minimize site lighting where possible and model the ite lighting using a computer model. Technoligies to reduce light pollution include full cutoff luminaires, low-reflectance surfaces and low-angle spotlights.

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What is a Brownfield Site?

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Means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous subtsnce, pollutant or contaminant (- from public law)

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What is so special about SScredits4.1-4.4?

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You can get an exemplary performance credit (1 point) for showing you greatly reduce automobile use.