The following words and phrases whenever used in this article shall have the following meanings and are defined as follows:
AGGREGATED WHOLE-BUILDING DATA: | Energy or water data that has been totaled for an entire property, which may include a single occupant or a group of separately metered tenants. |
BENCHMARK: | To input and submit the total energy and water consumed by a property, as well as other descriptive information of such Property, during the previous calendar year, as required by the Village. Total energy and water consumption shall not include separately metered uses that are not integral to building operations, as determined by the Director. |
BENCHMARKING REPORT: | A subset of information input into the benchmarking tool and benchmarking information generated by the benchmarking tool as determined by the Director. |
BENCHMARKING TOOL: | The United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager® tool, or any additional or alternative tool adopted by the Director, used to track and assess the energy and water use of certain properties relative to similar properties. |
CONDOMINIUM: | A property that combines separate ownership of individual units with common ownership of other elements such as common areas. |
COVERED VILLAGE PROPERTY: | A property that: A. Exceeds ten thousand (10,000) square feet in gross floor area; and B. Is owned by the Village; or C. A property for which the Village regularly pays all or most of the annual energy and/or water bills. |
COVERED NON-VILLAGE PROPERTY: | A property other than a covered Village property that exceeds ten thousand (10,000) square feet in Gross Floor Area. |
COVERED PROPERTY: | Any covered Village property or covered non-Village property. A. Single family, duplex, and triplex residential homes and related accessory structures, or any other residential building with less than four units are exempt from the requirements of this article. B. The State of Illinois and the Federal Government shall make reasonable efforts to comply with the requirements of this article with regard to a covered property which they own. |
DATA QUALITY CHECKER: | The function in ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager® that runs a set of basic data checks on properties to help identify possible data entry errors and to see whether a building differs from typical operational patterns. |
DATA TRANSPARENCY: | Information generated by the benchmarking tool, other descriptive information about a physical property and its operational characteristics that is shared with the public. This information shall include, but is not limited to: A. Descriptive information: 1. Property address; 2. Primary use of a building; 3. Gross floor area; 4. Number of years a property has been ENERGY STAR® certified and the last certification date, if applicable; 5. Name of the property owner; and 6. Individual or entity responsible for the benchmarking report. |
B. Output information: 1. Site and source energy use intensity; 2. Weather normalized site and source energy use intensity; 3. The ENERGY STAR® score when available; 4. Total annual greenhouse gas emissions; 5. Monthly energy use by fuel type; 6. Indoor water use and water use intensity (consumption per gross square foot); 7. Outdoor water use (where available); 8. Total water usage; 9. The ENERGY STAR® Water Score, where available; and 10. Any property Notes, if needed, to explain a building's ENERGY STAR® score and/or operating characteristics. C. Status of compliance or noncompliance with the requirements of the article. | |
DEPARTMENT: | The Development Customer Services Department. |
DIRECTOR: | The Development Customer Services Department Director or the Director’s designee. |
ENERGY: | Electricity, natural gas, steam, or other products sold by a Utility to an owner of property, or renewable on-site electricity generation, for purposes of providing heating, cooling, lighting, water heating, or powering or fueling other end uses as recorded in the benchmarking tool. |
ENERGY STAR® PORTFOLIO MANAGER®: | The tool developed and maintained by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to track and assess the relative energy performance of buildings. |
ENERGY STAR® Score: | The 1-100 numeric rating generated by the ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager® tool as a measurement of a building's energy efficiency. |
GROSS FLOOR AREA: | The total property area, measured between the outside surfaces of the exterior walls of the building(s). This includes all areas inside the building(s) including but not limited to lobbies, Tenant areas, common areas, meeting rooms, break rooms, atriums (count the base level only), restrooms, elevator shafts, stairwells, mechanical equipment areas, basements, and storage rooms. |
OWNER: | Any of the following: A. An individual or entity possessing title to a property; B. The board of a condominium association in the case of a condominium; C. The condominium association in the case of a Condominium where the powers of an owners' association are exercised by or delegated to an association; D. The board of directors in the case of a cooperative apartment corporation; or E. An agent authorized to act on behalf of any of the above. |
PROPERTY: | Any of the following: A. A single building; B. One or more buildings held in a condominium form of ownership and governed by a single board of managers; or C. A campus of two or more buildings which are owned and operated by the same party, have a single shared primary function, and are: 1. Behind a common utility meter or served by a common mechanical/electrical system, such as a chilled water loop, which would prevent an owner from being able to easily determine the energy use attributable to each of the individual buildings; or 2. Used primarily for one of the following functions: a. K-12 school; b. Hospital; c. Hotel; d. Multifamily housing; or e. Senior care community. |
TENANT: | A person or entity occupying or holding possession of a building, or part of a building or premises, pursuant to a rental or lease agreement. |
UTILITY: | An entity that distributes and/or sells natural gas, electricity, water, or thermal energy services for buildings. (Ord. 23-18, 2-6-2023) |