Gloucester and Mercer counties are in New Jersey. The Pennsylvania portion of this region includes four of the state's five most populous counties: Philadelphia (1st), Montgomery (3rd), Bucks (4th), and Delaware (5th), yielding a total population of 4,008,994. The total population of the corresponding New Jersey counties is 1, 617,192. 9 The survey went to one or more contacts in all 239 municipalities in the five-county Pennsylvania DVRPC region. Of 351 surveys sent out there were 52 usable responses representing 49 municipalities (15% response rate on surveys, 20% of municipalities represented). Respondents represented a range of large, medium, and small communities from all five counties. 10 These activities encompassed: including handouts/information about state or federal energy efficiency programs (40%), training about energy efficiency for commercial building owners and tenants (29%), zoning changes or provides variances for energy efficient buildings (44%), streamlined permitting for energy efficient buildings and/ or upgrades (31%), energy efficiency recognition programs for builders/ developers/ property owners (27%), and special funding (grants, lower interest loans, property assessed clean energy financing, etc.) to commercial and/or multifamily property owners for implementation of energy efficiency projects (13%). 11 The structure has a restaurant on the ground floor that was not affected by the renovation. The building lies in the Town Center zoning district and is subject to both Historic Area and Retail District requirements, which prevent exterior changes and exempt it from energy code requirements (Section 101.4.2). The brick-faced structure was built before 1920 and it has a basement, a single-glazed shop window on facing the street on the ground floor, and original casement windows on the upper floors. The renovated 2 nd and 3 rd story spaces total 2,550 ft 2 and represent about two thirds of the building's total floor area. This information is based on a developer interview on January 15, 2015 in West Chester, PA.12 These included (members of PCCA, Pennsylvania Construction Codes Academy and/or PABCO, Pennsylvania Association of Building Code Officials). 13 About half (56% of respondents, n= 29) say that these account for 10% or less, 33% (n=11) say they account for between 11-50% , while 6% of respondents (n=2) say that change-of-occupancy comes up more than 50% of the time and another 6% choose "other". As to whether and how these records could be attained, 12 out of 19 report either that these records cannot be accessed or can only be accessed through a written right-to-know request.