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Potentially Significant Potentially Unless Less than Significant Mitigation Significant Impact Incorporated Imped No Impact Mitigation #6: Applicant shall be required to excavate,.remove and recompact potentially liquefiable soil. In- site ground densification,for example,compaction with vibratory probes,dynamic consolidation, compaction • piles, compaction grouting, etc., shall be conducted. Ground modification techniques, such as permeation. grouting; columnar jet grouting, deep soil mixing, stone columns, gravel or other drains shall be implemented,and deep foundations shall be put in place to mitigate potential liquefaction-Induced settlement impacts. Implementation of Mitigation Measure#6 reduces potential impacts to a less than significant level. Implementation of Mitigation Measure#6 reduces potential Impacts to a less than significant level. f-g) Development and intensification of the project site could result in wind or water erosion of soils on or off-site,as a vacant parcel is replaced with the proposed development. To ensure that impacts are less than significant, the project applicant will be required to adhere to Best Management Practices. All construction activities will be required to comply with Chapter 18 of the San Leandro Municipal Code regulating excavation activities and the construction of foundations and retaining walls, as well as the San Leandro Grading Ordinance regulating grading activities, drainage and erosion control. Therefore, compliance with the NPDES permit process and the California Building Code . requirements would minimize potential impacts from erosion during and after project construction and would ensure that potential geology and soils impacts are less than•significant. The proposed development will not result in significant amounts of deposition or erosion of beach sands or changes in siltation,deposition or erosion which may modify the channel of a river or stream or the bed of the ocean or any bay, inlet or lake, as there are no bodies of water on or near the project site. • VII.GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. Would the project: a. Generate greenhouse gas emissions,either directly or indirectly,that may X have a significant impact on the environment? b. Conflict with any applicable plan,policy or regulation of an agency adopted X for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases? • Comment a) Generation of greenhouse gas emissions were evaluated in the Downtown San Leandro TOD Strategy EIR (September 2007). Combined with cumulative increase of all other sources of greenhouse gases, when taken together,could contribute to global climate change impacts.Development under the proposed Strategy would directly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions due to energy use associated with the manufacture and transport of construction materials and on-site demolition and construction activities. Development under the strategy may also directly result in increases in energy consumption associated with buildings and motor vehicle use, although the net change in greenhouse gas emissions id difficult to determine, since residents and workers would already live and work somewhere, and generate greenhouse gas emission elsewhere. Cumulative volumes of greenhouse gas emissions generated by the project could exceed the reduced levels of such emissions that were targeted under AB !j! 32. In such a case,a significant cumulative impact would occur. However as discussed in in the Downtown San Leandro TOD Strategy EIR, Regulatory Setting, City Resolutions 2006-013 and 2007-009 would reduce the emission of greenhouse gas emissions over time and the potential contribution to climate change. In addition, the Strategy contains several recommended actions that would serve to reduce the volume of greenhouse gases that could be created as a result of Its implementation. Examples include, but are not limited to, Actions Fl — F5 In the Strategy Implementation Matrix,which promote the inclusion of green building practices into projects occurring under the Strategy. In terms of travel demand management, Action E4 encourages the establishment of car-sharing and/or rental car services, especially in proximity to the BART station. Action El is to develop high-quality and direct pedestrian connections between development and BART, BRT and other transit systems, and to place commercial office entrances closest to the BART station.While the City's existing policies and certain recommended actions in the Strategy, such.as those specified above, would help reduce the cumulative amount of greenhouse gases created as a result of the Strategy and other projects, the City's adherence to the strategies set forth In the EPA Climate Action Team's Report would be required to reduce potential cumulative impacts to a less-than-significant level. Comment b)The proposed project does not have any component that is intended to conflict with any applicable plan, policy or regulation of the City adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases.The project Implements the Parking Framework, Plan and Strategy that cites the southern edge of the subject property is a potential parking structure location. It is shown as one of five sites for a parking structure in order to establish strategic reservoirs of off-street parking. 10