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• Build It GREEN- 1434 University Avenue 1 Berkeley, CA 947021510.845.04721 www.BuildItGreen.org Smart So ut,vns from the Ground Up December 15, 2008 City of Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, Califomia Dear City of Santa Rosa, Build It Green is grateful for the leadership and support provided by the City of Santa Rosa over the past years in the area of green building. Build It Green is particularly appreciative for the study developed by Santa Rosa; Green Buidina Phase Z Incremental Costs dated October 8, 2008, that quantifies the relative costs of GreenPoint Rated options. It Is Build It Green's understanding that Santa Rosa, based on information from this report, is considering moving ahead with adopting a 100 point threshold requirement using the current GreenPoint Rated cheolcflst Build It Green has concem that Santa Rosa may be rushing to adopt this threshold before GreenPoint Rated 2008 -2011 updates are complete, causing confusion for Santa Rosa's stakeholders and constituents. We believe that coordinating efforts with the GreenPoint Rated updates will establish a credible and rigorous green building program for Santa Rosa while maintaining a dear and consistent pathway for builders. To provide some background for the anticipated changes, l would like to briefly describe the GreenPoint Rated update process. Build It Green is currently in the process of updating the GreenPoint Rated checklist to maintain its "above Califomia code thresholds'. This effort is initiated every three years In coordination with the State establishment of new Title 24 Part 6 energy codes and includes a review of all codes and standards effecting the California building industry. It is anticipated that Califomia's new energy code will increase current compliance by approximately 15 %. In addition California is establishing higher water conservation and improved indoor air issue thresholds. Current point thresholds in the Green Point Rated checklist will be ratcheted upward next summer and 50 points eamed today will be less next summer. The updated GreenPoint Rated checklist will be available for use in unison with the California 2008 energy code updates which take effect in August, 2009 Following are a few issues relative to the update of GreenPoint Rated recommended for consideration in Santa Rosa's decision to adopt an increased point value. Build It Green is concerned that rushing into this change without enough forethought could lead to some unintended consequences. Point Evaluation— The Santa Rosa October, 2008 report is preliminary in its point equivalency of the 2008 -2011 GreenPoint Rated checklist to the current (2005) Page 1 of 2