Northbrook rebates permit fees for LEED buildings
The Village of Northbrook has a great incentive program for green building. to promote Green building techniques in public and private sector construction projects, they are giving rebates for LEED-certified buildings.
Northbrook uses the LEED rating system to distinguish different levels of sustainability in construction projects. In turn, for building green, there is a rebate for Covered Permit Fees (permits issued by Northbrook’s Building & Development Department for new buildings, additions, demolitions, alterations and site work) based on the LEED rating of the project.
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Bonus: if you’re one of the first LEED-certified buildings in a property class, the permit fee is completely waived!
So builders, what are you waiting for? Here is a link to Northbrook’s Green page, where Green Building Incentives are covered. Or click here to view the full green building incentive policy.
Story Tags: benefits, Economics, incentives, municipal
March 1st, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Great idea to refund permit fees to promote green building! To avoid restraint of trade issues, perhaps it would be best to follow the state of Illinois and Federal government precedents to include ‘or equal green building rating system’ into the language of this program.
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 am
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