LT Flashcards
LT acronym
Location and Transportation
LT general purpose
Emphasizes the existing features of the surrounding community and their impact on occupant behavior and environmental performance.
A spinoff of the sustainable sites (SS) category, which focuses on site Systems ecosystem services
LT 4 points purpose
Utilize existing utilities and infrastructure
Reduce ecological and material costs
Encourage alternatives to private automobile use
Enhance health by encouraging physical activity and reduced greenhouse emissions
LT documentation guidelines
Walking in bicycling distances our from point of origin to a destination measured along a safe path, not a straight line radius.
Safe walking paths include sidewalks, crosswalks, all weather surface footpath, or equivalent pedestrian facilities.
Safe bicycling paths include streets with low target vehicle speed, on street bicycle lanes, off-street bicycle paths or trails
Total Vehicle Parking Capacity is the number of all off-street spaces that the project users can use both inside and outside the project boundary. None of the following count:
Bicycle or motorcycle spaces
on-street parking spaces,
parking spaces for inventory or fleet vehicles.
Preferred parking spaces are closest to the main entrance of the project, exclusive of handicap spaces.
LTC: LEED ND location concept
Projects earn points for locating the building and a certified LEED for neighborhood development project.
Site selection in a LEED ND certified neighborhood or plan demonstrates a commitment to the goals of the LT category: linkages with the surrounding community, transit access, workability, connectivity, sensitive plant protection, and shared infrastructure.
LTC: Sensitive land protection purpose
Produces abilities environmental impact and avoids the development of environmentally sensitive land.
LTC: Sensitive land protection concept
Sensitive land such as agricultural areas, wetlands and floodplains provide many environmental and human health benefits.
Projects should select sites that have been previously developed limit a Building’s footprint to the previously developed locations on the site. This encourages an investment in existing neighborhoods and the reuse of existing infrastructure.
LTC: High-priority site purpose
Encourages locating projects in places with development constraints and supports the health of the adjacent areas.
LTC: High-priority site concept
Many governments and communities identified high-priority redevelopment sites that can bring economic and social benefits to the community by revitalizing neighborhoods.
LTC: High-priority site
3 paths to credit
encourage investment in historic areas
reward the location of appropriate projects on economically disadvantaged or depressed sites
promote redevelopment of contaminated sites
LTC: Surrounding density + diverse uses
purpose
Conserves land and protects wildlife habitat and farmland by encouraging development in areas with existing infrastructure. Reduces the distance traveled by vehicles, and promotes walkability and transportation efficiency. Encourages daily physical activity and improves public health.
LTC: Surrounding density + diverse uses
concept
Most people how willing to walk half a mile or less for regular trips such as the daily commute or up to five minutes, a quarter mile, for casual destinations. Placing a variety of destinations within these proximities achieves many documented social and environmental benefits.
This credit encourages project locations within walking distance of a variety of services and surrounded by existing built density.
The density thresholds correspond to the minimum density needed support fixed rail transit (12 dwelling units per acre) and bus transit (seven dwelling units per acre).
LTC: surrounding density and diverse uses
density thresholds
Two threshold types are used:
- combining the residential and nonresidential densities, and
- separating them.
To ensure a diversity of destinations, the credit specifies the uses that can and cannot count.
Distribution centers and warehouses have different requirements for this credit. For them, proximity to transportation infrastructure is prioritized.
LTC: Access to quality transit
purpose
Reduces motor vehicle use and related greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and other public health and environmental harm by encouraging development innovations with multimodal transportation choices.
LTC: access to quality transit
concept
Walkable, compact communities near transit improve the health and well-being of the community, benefit the environment, and provide alternatives to driving.
Public transit reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Transit oriented development consumes less land, revitalize his urban neighborhoods, and creates approximately twice economic benefit when compared with highway investment.
Projects within walking distance of multiple transit routes will encourage public transportation use.
LTC: Bicycle facilities
purpose
Reduces vehicle use and promotes bicycling and transportation efficiency. Encourages recreational and utilitarian physical activity and improves public health.
LTC: Bicycle facilities
concept
This credit encourages two things:
The provisions of short and long-term bicycle storage.
Access to a bicycle network: paths, trails, bike lanes, slow speed roadways.
About one pound of carbon dioxide emissions is avoided for every mile peddled rather than driven.
Having to carry a bicycle into a living space discourages bicycle use. Therefore long-term storage has to be placed outside of individual dwelling units.
LTC: reduced parking footprint
purpose
Minimizes land consumption, automobile dependence, rainwater runoff another environmental forms associated with parking facilities.
LTC: reduced parking footprint
concept
Inefficient parking systems generate unnecessary paved areas, create lost economic opportunities, reduce productivity, and increased carbon emissions and congestion.
Run off from impervious parking surfaces can flush contaminants into waterways and overwhelm municipal storm water systems. Dark parking lot surfaces absorb sunlight, trap heat, and contribute to heat island effect, raising ambient air temperatures.
Parking spaces cost approximately $15,000 per space in the United States.
LTC: reduced parking footprint
strategies
Locating projects in mixed-use, high density areas with access to transit can reduce parking demand.
Provide preferred parking for carpools and other transportation demand management strategies.
Limit vehicular parking by designing fewer spaces. The transportation planning handbook base ratios provide a baseline to compare parking supply reductions for this credit
LTC: green vehicles
purpose
Promotes other alternatives to fossil fueled automobiles and reduces pollution.
LTC: green vehicles
concept
Conventional fuel based vehicles create public health risks and climate change affects. This credit rewards regional and local infrastructure that encourages the purchase of green vehicles.
Projects must provide electric charging stations or other infrastructure for alternative fuel vehicles.
LTC: green vehicles
school projects
School projects may
1.Meet emissions and green vehicle standards for their bus and non-bus vehicle fleets, or
2.Address employee and visitor vehicle use, as in other rating systems.
LTC: green vehicles
warehouse & dist.
Warehouses and distribution center projects may:
1.Provide electrical connections at loading dock doors allowing truck drivers to plug into grid power to operate in-cab comfort settings and appliances rather than idle their engines.
2.Purchase alternative-fuel yard tractors to move trailers around the facility.
