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Comment 11 for Green Building Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-greenbuild-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Karen
Last Name: Smith
Email Address: ksmith@stopwaste.org
Affiliation: StopWaste.org
Subject: Green Building
Comment:
While it’s highly commendable that the Building Standards Commission recently approved the first set of statewide Green Building standards, contrary to the statement on page 23, the adopted standard will require 16 mandatory measures for the residential sector only by year 2011. The standards provide no more than voluntary measures for all other occupancies. As stated in the intent section of the Green Building code, these standards are to be viewed as minimal Green Building Standards and that local government entities retain their discretion to exceed the standards established by this code. We recommend that the scoping plan include language to explicitly encourage local jurisdictions to implement green building standards, guidelines and rating systems that are more stringent than the state code and that the state address any obstacles for local jurisdictions to do so. We also recommend that the “green building standards, guidelines and rating systems” adopted by local jurisdictions be defined as a publicly available system, developed by a third-party, and includes a mechanism for evaluating and determining whether, and to what extent, a structure qualifies as a green building. This will assure a level of consistency and quality assurance throughout the state. This recommendation could be included in the Local Government Actions section of the report.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-30 16:51:27
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