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CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Gabriela Hernández Castillo  on 

Our project has very limited landscape options and I just found out about the offsite land donation. We are by no means familiar with the Land trust nor the EPA level III ecoregion.

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Tue Feb 21, 2012, 7:56 pm

Open bottom planters

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Michael E. Edmonds-Bauer  on 

Reading the missing manuals I saw that planters can contribute to credit compliance as long as they are open bottom. By language barriers we do not fully understand the difference betweet an open

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Wed Jul 10, 2013, 3:13 pm

Restored Areas

posted by  Joaquim Lima  on 
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Fri Oct 29, 2010, 7:11 pm

project footprint definiton

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  tanner white  on 

I have a building with 3 foot overhangs around it.

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Thu Aug 30, 2012, 7:44 pm

Vegetated area requirement

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  JOHN BURNETT  on 

Hello, I am working on a project in China. According to local standards, only area with 600mm (approx.

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Sat Jul 26, 2014, 4:07 pm

Demonstration that plants are native or adapted

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  David Lazaro  on 

Hello, We are encountering some problems as to deciding which vegetation species can be counted as adapted. In a Mediterranean country, there are many plants that grow well in our city.

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Land Trusts and Land Use Restriction Agreements

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Colin Twohig  on 

We have a project that is going for LEED Core and Sheel v2009 certification in a densely populated urban area and needs to pursue some form of contractual interaction with a land trust in order to

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Mon Jul 28, 2014, 4:34 pm

Greenfield Site

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Maya Karkour  on 

Hello, Our project is a greenfield site (agricultural land) in a sub-urban area, we have a building footprint taking ~all the site, so we didn’t protect any land on site but we didn’t disturb the u

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Incorporating LEED interpretation to SSc5.1

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Phil Meyer  on 

Hi all, I have a question regarding a recent LEED interpretation citing SSc5.1.

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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 4:40 am

Green Walls

CS-2009 SSc5.1:Site Development—Protect or Restore Habitat
posted by  Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira  on 

Hi all! Can I get any benefit from having green walls in my project, for the purpose of this credit? P.S: It is a Previously Developed Area.

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