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Waiver Request Form – Proposed Design The requirements of the guidelines may be modified by the JDA only for reasons of hardship. Hardship includes the inability to physically achieve the standard due to circumstances unique to the property. Economic reasons alone do not constitute a hardship. Approved modifications must show demonstrable and quantifiable progress towards the Green Energy Vision. Acceptable · Full Waiver – Programmatic: conflict with the intended use of the project · Full Waiver – Technological: limitation of available technologies or methodologies · Provisional Exemptions: Pass-through to the next phase for guidelines without enough information to determine compliance Waiver type (Full or Provisional) Guideline number Reason (Programmatic, Technological, or Pass- Through) Describe request for modification and how the project will remain in harmony with the intent of the sustainability guidelines Provisional Waiver 2.1 Sustainability Certification Pass-Through This waiver requests to delay the decision for pursuing LEED certification for the proposed project until a later stage. Representative scorecards have been provided for reference of both anticipated points that the proposed design may achieve, as well as a scorecard that shows a path to Silver using the representative features of the Sustainable Design Guidelines that are outside of the scope of the proposed design. The challenge with achieving LEED certification at even a Certified level for this project is two-fold; there are both limitations on available points to pursue based on location at the current time (such as density & transit access, bicycle paths) and the manufacturing typology (such as thermal comfort, daylight, & views). Collectively, more than 15% of the 110 total points are unachievable for this project which means more credits must be achieved in other categories. Further time will allow the project team to work with the County’s sustainability consultant on better understanding the location-based credits’ viability as the greater Rice Creek Commons development proceeds, and to further advance understanding of credits possible from the tenant build-out. At a later stage, the project team will also be able to confirm whether there are remaining fees in the County’s land reduction budget available to cover the soft costs associated with the pursuit of LEED certification, but at this time it is anticipated that the value of that reduction is entirely needed to cover the cost of the ground-source heat exchange system and associated equipment premiums. Full Waiver 2.2.1 Energy Efficiency Technological This wavier requests to lower the required efficiency percentage from 50% to 25%. Through energy modeling conducted by the tenant MEP Engineering team, multiple HVAC system options have been evaluated and while one all-electric ground-source coupled option does demonstrate that 50% is achievable, the initial cost premium and payback period for that option is not favorable to this project’s conditions. The team proposes the lowered goal above in alignment with the current energy model results of the proposed design (highlighted in green on the Energy & Carbon Results table), with a buffer to allow for further