The new 90,000 square-foot Gaia Napa Valley Hotel, owned by Butterfly Effect, is the first hotel in the U.S. to achieve a LEED Gold rating. It was certified under the LEED for New Construction v2.1 rating system. The hotel has a guest room lodge, a reception building, and a conference center containing meeting rooms, a kitchen, and banquet room. A stormwater management plan has been implemented to reduce the impact on the community stormwater system and improve the performance over that of pre-development conditions. Roof surface water is collected and diverted to a central lagoon and then used to irrigate courtyard landscaping. The frontage of the entire site, exclusive of the entry drive, has been reconfigured into a series of bioswales and berms with an underdrain system and additional storage capacity, so that virtually no runoff leaves the site. Water conservation is achieved through efficient plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems that collectively reduce water consumption by more than 40%. The project is estimated to have energy savings of 24.9% beyond ASHRAE 90.1-1999 (and California's Title 24 requirements) and it has a solar array that supplies 10.12% of the electrical demand. As further evidence of Gaia Hotel's commitment to cutting-edge design strategies, the project has developed a green building educational outreach program, a green cleaning program that includes training for maintenance staff, and a landscape maintenance program that calls for the use of organic rather than synthetic fertilizers.