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DOCUMENTATION
Project
types
OptionsPathsDocumentation

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption
USGBC TDM Assessment calculator

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption

Baseline VMT

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption
Proposed VMT

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption
Baseline Emissions from VMT

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption
Proposed Emissions from VMT

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All
Not Claiming
TDA Exemption
Description of availability of alternative low-carbon
and active travel options.

All
All
Claiming TDA
Exemption
Documentation showing participation in a local or
regional government mandated TDM program.

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All
Claiming TDA
Exemption

Documentation showing project is an affordable
housing project in an infill location.

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All
Claiming TDA
Exemption

Documentation showing project (office, mixed-use,
residential, or retail) is located within a Transit Priority
Area or within a ½-mile (800-meter) walking distance
of an existing or planned major transit stop.

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Option 1.
Parking

Path 1. Reduce
Parking

Calculations demonstrating percent reduction in the
parking capacity from baseline.

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Option 1.
Parking

Path 1. Reduce
Parking

Parking Plan or Site Plan showing the LEED boundary
and the parking used by the project building.

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Option 1.
Parking

Path 2. Parking
Fee
Narrative identifying the parking fees and explaining
how the rate charged is equal to or greater than the
local market rate for parking.

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Option 1.
Parking

Path 2. Parking
Fee

Documentation confirming local market parking rate.

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Option 1.
Parking

Path 2. Parking
Fee
Confirmation that free parking is not provided for
employees.

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Option 2.
Active
Travel
Facilities
Path 1. LEED
Certified Base
Building

LEED Certified Base Building project ID.

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Option 2.
Active
Travel
Facilities
Path 1. LEED
Certified Base
Building

Confirmation that the project is located in a LEED
v4/v4.1 certified building that earned the LT: Bicycle
Facilities Credit, or in a LEED v5 certified building that
earned_LTc4: Transportation Demand Management_.

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Option 2.
Active
Travel
Facilities
Path 1. LEED
Certified Base
Building

Equivalent LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors points
earned.

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Option 2.
Active
Travel
Facilities
Path 2. Active
Travel Facilities
in Base Building

Refer to Option 3. Compliant Base Building, Path 1,
and Option 3. Compliant Base Building, Path 2.

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Option 3.
Compliant
Base
Building

Path 1. Bicycle
Network and
Storage
Vicinity map showing bicycle network meeting the
required criteria and walking/bicycling distance of
functional building entrance and/or bicycle storage to
existing or planned bicycle network.

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Option 3.
Compliant
Base
Building

Path 1. Bicycle
Network and
Storage
Confirmation bicycle network meets all criteria
identified in the credit requirements.

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Option 3.
Compliant
Base
Building

Path 1. Bicycle
Network and
Storage
Site Plan showing main and functional building
entrances, short-term bicycle storage and long-term
bicycle storage and shared micromobility storage (if
applicable), walking distance from short-term storage

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