Location and Transportation Flashcards
What role does the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) play in transportation?
a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1980, whose mission is to advance energy as a fast, cheap, and effective means of meeting energy challenges.
In order to be recognized as a green vehicle, an automobile must achieve a minimum green score of 45 on the ACEEE annual vehicle rating guide.
What is a bicycle network?
a path of series of paths in rural, urban, or suburban areas that are clearly marked for bicycle travel. Providing access ot bicycle networks with proximity and access to basic services will encourage people to ride their bikes to work and run errands from the building during the day.
What is a brownfield and why is it considered a high-priority site?
a property on which redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or possible presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Cleaning it up, remediating and reinvesting in these properties protects the environment, reduces blight, and takes development pressures off greenfield areas and working lands.
Define buildable land.
the portion of a site where construction can occur including land voluntarily set aside and not constructed on.
Describe what community connectivity means within the LEED framework.
the amount of connection between a site and the surrounding community, measured by the proximity of the site to homes, schools, parks, stores, restaurants, medical facilities, and other services and amenities.
Explain density within the context of the Location and Transportation (LT) category.
a measure of the total building floor area or dwelling units on a parcel of land relative to the buildable land of that parcel.
a.k.a. floor-to-area ratio (FAR).
What is development density?
a.k.a. surrounding density. the total square footage of all buildings within a particular area surrounding the project location, measured in square feet per acre (square meter per hectare).
What is a diverse use?
a distinct, officially recognized business, nonprofit, civic, religious, or governmental organization, or dwelling units (residential use) or offices (commercial office use). It has a stationary postal address and is publicly available.
What is a floodplain and how does it affect the location of a project?
an area that is likely to be flooded by a storm of a given size (such as a 100 year storm) and should not be built on. The development footprint should be located on a previously developed site or a site that does not meet the criteria for a sensitive site such as a floodplain.
What is floor-area ratio (FAR)?
the density of nonresidential land use, exclusive of structured parking, measured as the total nonresidential building floor area divided by the total buildable land area available for nonresidential structures.
