Alternate Land Tenure Exception
Living Building Challenge·clause PL-013·p.106
The requirement
Living Building Challenge Program Manual clause PL-013 — words not shown. Read it at the source. The publisher reserves the right to its wording and sells access to it. The clause is held and cited here, and its words are read at the source.
The clause is held and verified. Only its words are withheld.
How it is proven
- Evidence required
- The submission must provide substantiation and documentation cited below. The mechanism must demonstrate all of the following: 1. The party responsible for carrying out and defending its terms to protect land within an intact, high value ecosystem, meets the requirements identified under approved land trusts or PL-011 Accreditation Equivalency; 2. Legal legitimacy and enforceability in the locale, including a clear articulation of what constitutes a transgression, a process for resolution, and if necessary, legal enforcement; 3. Permanent protection, including as applicable, an explicit strategy to execute permit agreement renewal or succession, in a manner that upholds the conservation objectives of the agreement in perpetuity; and 4. A clear strategy for ensuring the ongoing protection of the site’s conservation values.
- Who checks it
- Independent body verifies — a certifier, auditor or verifier with no stake
How Klar Cite classifies it
Klar Cite’s reading of the clause, not the scheme’s own claim.
- What it asks
- Meet — a limit, condition or outcome the product must satisfy
- Standing
- Required — must be met for the credential
- Impact area
- Ecosystem Health — the CMF area the clause addresses
Cite this clause
Living Building Challenge · Living Building Challenge Program Manual · version 4.1 · clause PL-013 · page 106 · build 2026-10-05-0439 · https://klarcite.com/r/60541cfaa50206c7
Record details
Page 106, PL-013 Alternate Land Tenure. Read in build 2026-10-05-0439, harvested 2026-10-05.
uid 60541cfaa50206c7 · document 117acb9730a17078 · fidelity verbatim · published 2026-01