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City of Asheville's Sustainable Development Incentives presents sustainable development incentives that promote affordable housing and green building.

 

Innovative tools allow for enduring excellence and sturdy property values real estate buyers, sellers and investors can appreciate.   As reported in an article on Transformational Development in Asheville's Mountain Express,  

 

" The policy implements a points system: 10 points represents an economic incentive equivalent to one year of property taxes as well as a 10 percent reduction in permit and fee charges, for example. LEED Bronze Certification would net a development 10 points, with an additional 10 points awarded for each level of LEED certification with a maximum of up to 40 points for LEED Platinum."

 

Of special interest to Blue Ridge Parkway fans could be the Gold Certified Asheville Destination Center (see photo) we visited.  Check out this link to a previous post for details!Asheville's New Leed Certified Destination Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway.   

 

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 AIA COTE Sustainable Development

Wednesday Sept 28th @ 11:00 AM

Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St. Downtown Asheville

 

UPCOMING LEED for Homes Courses in  AshevilleNC

 

Homes 252: Understanding the LEED for Homes Rating System

Learn the intents and requirements of prerequisites and key credits within the LEED for Homes rating system. Support your learning by exploring strategies pursued by real world LEED for Homes projects. This course will enable you to identify the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders and is designed to prepare you to plan for key considerations and requirements for the LEED certification process.

 

Ideal audience: Professionals (builders, architects, engineers, construction managers, contractors, etc.) seeking an understanding of the LEED for Homes rating system, whether pursuing GBCI's LEED AP Homes credential or simply needing to apply the rating system in their job. Professionals must already be familiar with concepts, elements, and goals of green building and LEED before taking this workshop.

WHEN: October 25th in Asheville

 

CEU CREDITS: 7 GBCI CE Hours (LEED Homes Specific) 7 AIA/CES (LU) 7 HSW/SD BOMI (CPD) 7 CoreNet (CPD) 7 CSI (CEU) 0.725 NARI Green (CEU) 0.7

Register Online here: http://store.ncsolarcenter.org/uslereedtr.html

 

 

 

 

 

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Incentivizing Sustainable Development-Today's Real Estate Landscape for Listing Agents and Clients

In a post last week I suggested that "green has gone mainstream" : there's been a shift in public awareness  towards sustainable development. This shift affects the real estate landscape. To be considered by real estate professionals from the perspective of value and value-added features for our clients-: the "green" niche market, marketing benefits, and incentives that accompany green development.

Here in Asheville, NC, community interest centers around minimizing the environmental impacts of the built environment. WNC Healthy Built © http://healthybuilthomes.org/  provisions  shape the market from requirements to meet various levels of Certification that can incentivize exceptional performance and design such as:  

Expedited Permitting

Tax Incentives

Density Bonuses

Green Building Codes

 

 

 While incentivizing sustainable development is popular in cities such as Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, DC and right here in Asheville, some real estate professionals wonder about the "technicalities" in  listing such properties and how to define them in terms of  "green" building codes.

For example: Does an earth-sheltered-berm home, with two of it's bedrooms neatly bermed into the earth (therefore no windows and no direct egress to the outside) meet building and fire codes so that it can be listed as a two-bedroom home? And/or would compliance depend on variances and/or the year the home was constructed? 

To answer this question, I asked a number of Green Experts. Stay tuned for their answers.

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