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Updated 1/17/2025 <br />Rice Creek Commons <br />Sustainability Design Guidelines <br />Last Revised: January 17, 2025 <br />1.Purpose. The purpose of the Sustainability Design Guidelines (SDG) is to advance the TCAAP Joint <br />Development Authority’s (JDA’s) mission to advance sustainable development, reduce energy use and <br />carbon dioxide emissions, and thereby mitigate the impacts of climate change from the Rice Creek <br />Commons development. These guidelines establish the sustainability standards for development on <br />the site and serve to implement the Green Energy Vision and Clean Energy Policy, which has the goal <br />of an all-electric, carbon-free development. These guidelines also support the JDA’s pursuit of LEED <br />for Communities (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design v4.1 for Communities: Plan + <br />Design) certification. It is the goal of the JDA that each building and parcel in Rice Creek Commons <br />shall comply with the SDG. The JDA will apply these guidelines within the Rice Creek Commons <br />development through Development Agreements that are subject to JDA approval <br />2.Guidelines <br />2.1. Sustainability Certification. Each building and tenant improvement shall achieve LEED BD+C New <br />Construction certification at the silver level or above using the newest version available at the <br />time of registration. The LEED boundary for each improved parcel of land within the <br />Development shall be the same as the boundary of that parcel. Other certification systems will <br />be considered for one- to four-unit residential buildings, including the DOE’s Zero Energy Ready <br />Home (ZERH) program and Phius Passive House standards. <br />2.2. Building Decarbonization. <br />2.2.1. Energy Efficiency. All buildings and tenant improvements shall achieve: 50% better energy <br />efficiency than the applicable Minnesota Energy Code, certification from the DOE’s Zero <br />Energy Ready Home (ZERH) program, or Phius CORE certification as a Passive House. <br />2.2.2. Electrification. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all buildings shall be all- <br />electric and shall not use any fossil fuels. Any waivers of this provision will be restricted to <br />systems or devices for which an equivalent all-electric system or design is unavailable, <br />impractical, or is determined to present an equity gap, as reasonably determined by JDA. In <br />the event of a waiver, buildings the JDA allows to use any fossil fuels must offset an <br />equivalent amount of carbon emissions each year. <br />2.2.3. Renewable Energy. All buildings in the Development must install photovoltaic (PV) systems <br />that either: <br />2.2.3.1. generate, on an annual basis, enough electricity to meet one hundred twenty <br />percent (120%) of the building's anticipated energy use; or <br />2.2.3.2. include a rooftop array with a rated capacity of not less than 10.75 watts per gross <br />square foot of roof area and a covered parking array for all parking lots containing <br />twenty or more parking spaces -- including the top level of multi-level parking <br />structures – with a rated capacity of not less than 7.5 watts per gross square foot of <br />parking area.