Henderson Transportation Sustainability Requirements

The purpose of Development Code Sec. 19.10.12 is to promote sustainable development within the City by creating incentives for compact, mixed-use development patterns; encouraging solar and other alternative energy sources; promoting alternative means of transportation like bicycling and walking that can improve community health while helping reduce air pollution; protecting trees that absorb greenhouse gases and reduce storm water runoff and pollutants; and, encouraging water-efficient landscaping and protecting water resources.

Multifamily residential development consisting of new buildings or substantial renovations to existing buildings must achieve a minimum score of 38 points. All other residential development consisting of new buildings or substantial renovations to existing buildings must achieve a minimum score of 31 points. Nonresidential or mixed-use development consisting of new buildings or substantial renovations to existing buildings must achieve a minimum score of 42 points. New buildings on partially developed sites (such as pad sites) located in developments built before the adoption of this Code must achieve a minimum score of 28 points. Eligibility is determined at the discretion of the Director.

Design features related to transportation
The purpose of sustainability measures related to transportation promote public health by encouraging daily physical activity associated with alternative modes of transportation such as walking and bicycling; encourage the use of public transit; promote safe and efficient transportation; and, design parking facilities to minimize adverse environmental impacts to pedestrians.
Points are awarded when:
1. development includes a network of on-site bicycle pathways that provide safe, continuous bicycle access to all uses within the development site and to land uses on adjacent properties.
2. master planned communities provide safe pedestrian and bicycle routes between major residential centers in a development and schools, churches, and other major community facilities and gathering places. Safety features shall include raised/marked pedestrian crossings, narrow streets, or streets with pedestrian medians, and similar features; avoid erecting obstructions such as signage and utility poles in sidewalks; and provide separated grade crossings.