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2026 Green Communities Criteria Draft
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2026 Enterprise Green Communities Criteria Draft

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Category 1: Integrative Design

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Category 2: Location & Neighborhood Fabric

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Category 3: Site Design

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Category 4: Water

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Category 5: Operating Energy

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Category 6: Materials

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Category 7: Healthy Living Environment

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Category 8: Operations, Maintenance, and Resident Engagement

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Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 4:45AM on page 211

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Same as 7.13

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 4:44AM on page 207

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Language for this criterion is not specific, and requirements are not quantifiable. It will be challenging for teams to understand how to comply, and for the verifier to verify compliance.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 4:37AM on page 190

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Mandatory for rehabs as well?

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 4:18AM on page 163

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Isn't porcelain/ceramic tile or stone an acceptable flooring material? It is typical for bathrooms, laundry rooms, etc. which might account for more than 10% of all flooring, thus making option 1 not possible for most projects.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 4:13AM on page 156

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Options a, b, and c are not quantifiable, which might make them difficult to verify.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:39AM on page 155

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Is this mandatory for both new construction and rehab?
This might be very challenging for rehabs where many of the proposed options might not be applicable.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:35AM on page 153

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Define "screen". What, exactly, are teams supposed to do once they have selected the categories of materials and resources? The language for requirements here are very vague.
Also, flag that many of the materials listed among categories are typically specified much later than the early design phase.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:27AM on page 152

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Will Enterprise offer the training?

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:25AM on page 152

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The general contractor has typically not been onboarded yet during early design.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:17AM on page 147

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It is unclear whether both 'natural ventilation' and 'shading' must be achieved to receive points, or if it's either/or.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:15AM on page 147

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suggesting making this optional requirement a bit stricter by requiring at least one operable windows in *each room* of each dwelling unit.
Also, note that this will be easily achieved by almost all NYC projects, making them "free" points.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:11AM on page 144

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It is unclear from the language if the requirement is for installation or readiness, or both.

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 2:07AM on page 141

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Define "usable" roof space

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 1:51AM on page 112

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Street pressure might not be enough at each floor of a multifamily building - in NYC it is typically enough up to 4th floor, but not beyond that. Has the requirement changed to have an access to potable water *on each floor* of the building regardless or only on those floors where street pressure would be enough in case of an emergency?

Giulia Luci Aug 3 2025 at 1:47AM on page 110

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The calculations required to demonstrate compliance with this criterion are difficult because teams might not have a good estimate of how much water can be collected from a certain roof/site square footage.
Could it be flipped by asking to achieve a minimum % of roof/site square footage from where water for reuse shall be collected?

Giulia Luci Aug 2 2025 at 1:00PM on page 98

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Can 4.2 be combined with 4.1 with mandatory + optional options? Just an idea for simplification.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:46PM on page 83

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Why not 100%? Wasn't 100% in the previous criteria? Is there a reason why some of the exterior lighting shouldn't have sensors, assuming emergency lighting are already excluded from these requirements?

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:43PM on page 81

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Option 2 only would help with this requirement.
Also, even within option 2, clarify which level must be pursued AND, within that, if there is a minimum square footage of impervious pavement that must be achieved.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:41PM on page 82

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Solar Reflectance (SR) or Solar Reflectance Index (SRI)? It is helpful if all language throughout the criterion uses the same parameter.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:39PM on page 81

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Providing high-albedo (high SRI) roof material has nothing to do with pervious/impervious.
While impervious surface is a category that reduces the heat-island effect, it is not the only one. Terminology is a bit confusing, in this case.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:37PM on page 81

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Define "usable" roof space.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 12:04PM on page 44

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The information about tree canopy and other shading and whether it's 10% of the public open space will be very difficult (impossible?) to gather.

Giulia Aug 2 2025 at 11:59AM on page 16

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Where is the "requirements" paragraph?
When/how is this mandatory?

Erin Ishizaki Aug 2 2025 at 9:53AM on page 81

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C2.5 Option 2 would increase impervious area on site; but C2.5 Option 1 (locate near other open space offsite) does not move the ball on heat island on behalf of the project. Suggest clarifying that only C2.5 opt 2 counts for this requirement.

Mark Zimet Aug 1 2025 at 6:09PM on page 117

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For the NYC Overlay please defer to Local Law 97 requirements.

Mark Zimet Aug 1 2025 at 5:48PM on page 15

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Is 1.6 mandatory or optional? Making this mandatory would be burdensome and unnecessary. Newly built (and renovated) affordable housing to current codes, standards, and design requirements brings with it positive coattails for resident health.

Mark Zimet Aug 1 2025 at 5:31PM on page 2

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As an experienced developer I find many of these categories performative and unhelpful. EGC has a long history of pushing project innovations in energy efficiency, technology and other qualitative and quantitative measures but much of this is just make-work. To cite a recent example, identifying the “challenges and opportunities” faced by the formerly homeless adults with serious and persistent mental illness in a 50-word text box is ludicrous. Developing affordable housing is already complicated and costly enough without creating additional paperwork burdens with limited value. In a time of escalating standards and requirements (zoning code, building code, energy code, city and state design and sustainability requirements…) I encourage Enterprise to pare down the EGC mandates to truly essential items.

Carl Seville Aug 1 2025 at 1:48PM on page 140

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Are permanent generators not allowed?

Carl Seville Aug 1 2025 at 1:44PM on page 122

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What is the plan if ENERGY STAR is eliminated?

Carl Seville Aug 1 2025 at 1:36PM on page 124

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Why not 100% of lighting LED?

Carl Seville Aug 1 2025 at 1:34PM on page 116

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What are expectations for buildings that have unit level electrical metering - on site renewables may not be practical for individual unit level PV systems or in the case of sub metering from a large system may not be legal is some jurisdictions. Should owners be required to purchase RECs or other offsets for their tenants?

Mitchell Jul 31 2025 at 10:16AM on page 26

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Social vulnerability index (link); minority health SVI (link);link and link may be useful resources as well

Jen Jul 31 2025 at 6:53AM on page 122

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Reframe to steer users to other options?

Ella Jul 30 2025 at 11:08PM on page 6

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The criteria sounds good but for who? The affordable housing program sounds good but in my opinion it's a scam like all the other programs my husband died and he was a Army Veteran so my daughter moved be in with her and my grandson. Each time we applied for the affordable housing program we got kicked in the face been homeless and In the shelter we are over the income guide lines I received social security benefits and she works and then Codv19 came lost job I like to listen to you people you talk a good game but do you really help people like a single parent with a elderly parent to take care of because of their circumstances? Yes everyone needs a decent place to live and be safe in? What about the people who are doing the right thing but circumstances put the best of people in places that they can't help and to be hurting and you still don't get the help that you really need you see the high cost of housing?

Connor Jul 30 2025 at 2:47PM on page 130

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Broken link. The url is missing an x in "nextgen."

Jared Jul 30 2025 at 9:49AM on page 124

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What's your definition of a qualified energy rater? HERS, minimum number of years experience, etc?

Jared Jul 30 2025 at 9:48AM on page 65

NYC Overlay Comment or Question
Is this expected to be an as-of-right for NYC projects?

Jared Jul 30 2025 at 9:47AM on page 125

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For NY projects, HPD and HCR require rehabs to energy model with existing conditions and utility consumption as a baseline to determine minimum 20% savings, for example. Using 90.1-2019 can provide some value, but it doesn't allow the building to see how they're actually planning to improve, and requires double work to meet HPD and HCR requirements.

John ingargiola Jul 30 2025 at 2:18AM on page 36

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Replace all references to ASCE 24-14 with ASCE 24-24 which was published in January 2025

Mitchell Jul 29 2025 at 7:07PM on page 220

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Surgeon General report may be helpful resource, link

Mitchell Jul 29 2025 at 7:00PM on page 210

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SAMHSA resources may be helpful link

Mitchell Jul 29 2025 at 6:55PM on page 15

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Add National Institute of Building Science resources, link

Thomas Bishop Jul 29 2025 at 2:33PM on page 5

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Many very experienced developers have their own process for completion of community and tenant engagement. Our developments have not used the Green Communities model as it is too time consuming and repetitive of what we've done.
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