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November 9, 2009 Section 3: Building Energy Use officials and others to promote the understanding and proper application of green building technologies. The City also targets education for residents and developers as well as exploring grant opportunities for green building assistance and incentives for projects achieving green building certification. Since January 2009, San Leandro's Building & Safety Division requires contractors and builders to complete a Green Building checklist for all building permits that include: • Any new construction • Residential additions over 500 square feet • Commercial/industrial projects over $100,000 in value The goal of this initiative is to teach local builders about green building and the related certification programs, and potentially achieve long term market transformation of increasing awareness and understanding of green building practices. Currently, the City has seven certified GreenPoint Raters (constituting all of the Building Division inspector staff and the majority of the plan check staff) and two LEED Accredited Professionals to provide technical assistance and support to applicants in achieving green building certification for both commercial and residential projects. The City has also teamed up with sister cities in southern Alameda County to create consistency among the cities in the development of green building policy. In 2009, San Leandro co-hosted a developer's forum for residential green building programs and policies in the south Alameda County area and will be coordinating a training session with StopWaste.Org on the Small Commercial Checklist protocol in December 2009. In addition to the municipal green building policy adopted for City-owned buildings, a private sector commercial new construction green building ordinance may also be considered. A summary of measures and actions to promote green building practices include the following: ^ Establish mandatory green building ordinance for private new construction. Require new commercial/industrial building projects over 10,000 sq ft. to achieve a minimum point level on an appropriate green building checklist such as GreenPoint Rated, LEED, or California's Green Building Code. ^ Identify and promote funding sources and other incentives to subsidize green buildings. Some PG&E incentive programs, such as the California Statewide Savings by Design program, may provide incentives for new construction that meet energy efficiency thresholds. ~~~, 4~" !~y~~ Page 23 ~~8,+~'