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<br />Page | 14 <br /> <br />Appendix: Rice Creek Commons Sustainability Design Guidelines <br /> <br />Last Revised: January 17, 2025 <br />1. Purpose. The purpose of the Sustainability Design Guidelines (SDG) is to advance the TCAAP Joint Development <br />Authority’s (JDA’s) mission to advance sustainable development, reduce energy use and carbon dioxide <br />emissions, and thereby mitigate the impacts of climate change from the Rice Creek Commons development. <br />These guidelines establish the sustainability standards for development on the site and serve to implement the <br />Green Energy Vision and Clean Energy Policy, which has the goal of an all-electric, carbon-free development. <br />These guidelines also support the JDA’s pursuit of LEED for Communities (Leadership in Energy and <br />Environmental Design v4.1 for Communities: Plan + Design) certification. It is the goal of the JDA that each <br />building and parcel in Rice Creek Commons shall comply with the SDG. The JDA will apply these guidelines within <br />the Rice Creek Commons 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 time of <br />registration. The LEED boundary for each improved parcel of land within the Development shall be the <br />same as the boundary of that parcel. Other certification systems will be considered for one- to four-unit <br />residential buildings, including the DOE’s Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) program and Phius Passive <br />House standards. <br />2.2. Building Decarbonization. <br />2.2.1. Energy Efficiency. All buildings and tenant improvements shall achieve: 50% better energy efficiency <br />than the applicable Minnesota Energy Code, certification from the DOE’s Zero Energy Ready Home <br />(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-electric and <br />shall not use any fossil fuels. Any waivers of this provision will be restricted to systems or devices for <br />which an equivalent all-electric system or design is unavailable, impractical, or is determined to <br />present an equity gap, as reasonably determined by JDA. In the event of a waiver, buildings the JDA <br />allows to use any fossil fuels must offset an equivalent amount of carbon emissions each year. <br />2.2.3. Renewable Energy. All buildings in the Development must install photovoltaic (PV) systems that <br />either: <br />2.2.3.1. generate, on an annual basis, enough electricity to meet one hundred twenty percent (120%) <br />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 square foot <br />of roof area and a covered parking array for all parking lots containing twenty or more parking <br />spaces -- including the top level of multi-level parking structures – with a rated capacity of not <br />less than 7.5 watts per gross square foot of parking area. <br />All panels used in PV systems must be rated as Tier 1 panels and, if applicable, qualify under <br />the Inflation Reduction Act for the Investment Tax Credit. Any renewable energy credits <br />generated from PV systems in the Development shall be credited to the Development as a <br />whole. Projects that are not able to generate enough energy, on an annual basis, to meet one <br />hundred percent of their energy use, based on meeting this guideline, must purchase green