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SAN LEANDRO SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT DRAFT EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS <br />Statewide strategies to reduce GHG emissions include the LCFS; California Appliance Energy Efficiency <br />regulations; California Building Standards (i.e., CALGreen and the 2008 Building and Energy Efficiency <br />Standards); California Renewable Energy Portfolio standard (33 percent RPS); changes in the corporate <br />average fuel economy standards (i.e., Pavley I and Pavley II); and other measures that would ensure the <br />State is on target to achieve the GHG emissions reduction goals of AB 32. Statewide GHG emissions <br />reduction measures that are being implemented over the next six years would reduce the Project's GHG <br />emissions. <br />New residential and non-residential construction for the Project would be subject to the current building <br />and energy efficiency standards. The new buildings would be constructed in conformance with CALGreen, <br />which requires high -efficiency water fixtures for indoor plumbing and water efficient irrigation systems. <br />Therefore, impacts would be less -than -significant. <br />MTC's Plan Bay Area <br />To achieve ABAG's/MTC's sustainable vision for the Bay Area, the Plan Bay Area land use concept plan for <br />the region concentrates the majority of new population and employment growth in the region in PDAs. <br />PDAs are transit -oriented, infill development opportunity areas within existing communities. Overall, well <br />over two-thirds of all regional growth by 2040 is allocated within PDAs. PDAs are expected to <br />accommodate 80 percent (or over 525,570 units) of new housing and 66 percent (or 744,230) of new <br />jobs. <br />The Project site is not within a PDA identified in Plan Bay Area. However, the Project is an infill <br />development project that would improve the existing facilities along the shoreline and increase residential <br />and non-residential land uses intensity at the Project site. In addition, the Project would improve non - <br />motorized access to the harbor and would develop a Class I bicycle facility along the waterfront. <br />Consequently, the Project is consistent with the overall goals of Plan Bay Area, which include <br />concentrating new development in locations where there is existing infrastructure. Therefore, the Project <br />would not conflict with land use concept plan in Plan Bay Area. <br />City of San Leandro Climate Action Plan <br />The City of San Leandro prepared a CAP to reduce community and municipal GHG emissions. The <br />measures identified in the City's CAP represent the City's actions to reduce GHG emissions in the City. <br />While this CAP is not a "qualified" CAP because it does not meet the objectives identified in CEQA <br />Guidelines Section 15183.540 the overall goals of the CAP help the City reduce GHG emissions. Therefore, <br />a qualitative consistency analysis of the Project design features that achieve the applicable community <br />actions in the City's CAP is provided below: <br />40 In order to tier off a GHG reduction plan, Section 15183.5 of the CEQA Guidelines requires that the plan include a GHG <br />emissions inventory of existing conditions and an emissions forecast, identify a GHG reduction target for the forecast year that <br />would not cumulatively contribute to GHG emissions, identify and analyze GHG reduction measures, measures must include <br />performance standards that substantial evidence demonstrates would achieve the emissions reductions necessary, the plan must <br />establish a mechanism to monitor the plan's progress toward achieving the GHG reductions, and the plan must be adopted in the <br />a public process following environmental review. <br />4.6-22 DECEMBER 2014 <br />