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enforcement of the CALGreeri mandatory provisions, which the City is doing with our public outreach, informational handouts and simplified checklists, and our internal schedule for training of our inspection and plan checking staff. The final recommendation by the BACC study encouraged jurisdictions that proceed with adopting CALGreen with a Tier requirement in place of the outside rating systems to also incorporate the City's ability to accept a third - party rating system in lieu of the Tier requirements. The proposed ordinance does incorporate an "alternative compliance option" that would enable an applicant to pursue certification by a third -party rating system in lieu of the City's green plan check process. On September 2, 2010, a collaborative that consisted of AIA- California Council, BIGTM, USGBC, Simon & Associates, Inc., SFEnvironment, and Stopwaste.Org also distributed some documentation regarding system comparisons. The cover letter of the documentation states that the "documents do not provide extensive analysis of the similarities or differences in verification of any of the rating systems or CALGreen." Based on staffs review of the documents provided by this collaborative and another comparison of the systems by staff, staff found that the documents did not provide all the credits and /or measures for all the programs, much of the information that was provided was either not clear or conflicted with other comparisons of the same measure /credit without detailed justification of the discounting of the credit, and the format of the documentation did not provide clear correlations between the systems being compared. Therefore, staffs recommendation to pursue a code amendment to incorporate CALGreen as the City's reference standard remained unchanged 5 The collaborative review did influence reconsideration of some credits and measures by staff, but the overall determination that CalGreen Basic plus Tier I with our proposed local amendments was equivalent to the City's current programs and procedures remained unchanged.