In an article that we recently posted over at gbNYC, green building attorney Paul D’Arelli of the Greenberg Traurig law firm calls San Francisco’s new green building legislation “LEED on acid.” Mr. D’Arelli points out that San Francisco’s new legislation now penalizes developers who redevelop real property, holding them to a higher green standard than developers who are building on vacant parcels. For example, if a project involves demolition work, it must achieve an additional 10 percent in LEED points in order to comply with the ordinance. “There is no correlation required in terms of the extra points required to comply with the mandated 10 percent increase and the goals sought to be advanced in rehabilitating rather that redeveloping buildings, namely preserving embodied energy and materials in existing buildings and reducing the consumption of energy and materials in constructing new building,” D’Arelli writes.
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Redevelopers Beware – San Francisco’s Green Building Ordinance is LEED® on Acid*
San Francisco’s new LEED-driven legislation could have significant consequences for the city’s real estate development community.
Students Protest Lack of LEED in Design for CT Campus Building
At Norwalk Community College in Connecticut, students are petitioning against a new lab building’s relative lack of green features.
