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ATTACHMENT 12 THE CITY OF Ism .I.11 III pLEASANTONC Program Comparison Methodology This is a brief report of the comparison exercises that were performed to assess the equivalency between the new CALGreen program and the City of Pleasanton's existing programs. The City's existing green building regulations rely on programs that are managed by outside entities. Commercial and civic projects are required to utilize the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEEDTM) program which is managed by the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) and residential projects are required to utilize Build It Green's (BIGTM) Green Building Guidelines. These programs are point based systems and the City does a self- certification process of the measures claimed by each project. CALGreen is not a point based system; it mandates required measures and a required number of electives by category. Given the number and timing of meetings that would need to take place prior to the effective date of the State -wide code the City of Pleasanton embarked on the comparison of the program in order to formulate a recommendation. In summary, to compare the City's existing programs to the State -wide regulations, staff converted the measures and electives listed in the CALGreen code to point equivalents in the LEEDTM and BIGTM programs. Staff began this process utilizing the draft CALGreen code, attended presentations regarding CALGreen regulations, and worked with other knowledgeable people to do an accurate comparison. The methodology that was utilized for comparing the systems consisted of taking our current program checklists for each project type and going point by point through them to compare the wording /requirements of the CALGreen system (at all levels: Basic, Tier 1, and Tier 2). Staff assessed each credit/point of the existing system (none were left out of the review process). Staff found that several measures and electives of the CALGreen code were written with the same wording as both the BIGTM programs and the LEEDTM requirements. Other measures and electives contained similar wording with minor changes, but the intent and standard was still being achieved. In some instances the measure in CALGreen was close to that of the corresponding credit/point in the BIGTM/ LEEDTM program, but the slight difference was enough to result in the CALGreen measure not being assigned a point value. Overall, the CALGreen measures with the local amendments were found to be equivalent to the City's current green standards. Therefore, staff recommends the proposed code amendment to specify the State -wide CALGreen code as the City's reference standard. The City does not require commissioning or registration of the project with any outside entity under the current regulations. 1