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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RE: Exhibit A -CONSISTENCY MEMORANDUM FOR THE SLTC MIXED-USE PROJECT (PLN16-0067) JULY 17, 2017 Page 17 Overall, the TOD Strategy EIR estimated that the proposed land uses in the TOD Strategy area would result in approximately 3,431 housing units and 120,870 square feet of new commercial floor area within the 502-acre TOD Strategy area. The proposed project would construct 197 housing units and 13,024 square feet of commercial space assumed in the TOD Strategy EIR. To date the City has not reached its buildout potential in the project area and the project would be part of meeting the TOD strategy growth projections. Therefore, the proposed project would be consistent with the TOD Strategy growth projects defined in the TOD Strategy EIR. TOD Strategy EIR The TOD Strategy EIR analyzed potentially significant impacts from TOD Strategy buildout in San Leandro. The TOD Strategy EIR is a program EIR that studied a plan for the future development of the city, rather than, for example, a specific development on a particular parcel for which a developer sought land use entitlements. However, as explained in Section B(1) of the TOD Strategy EIR introduction, “This program EIR also functions as a “first tier” EIR that may narrow future site-specific approvals….for example, that, where a first tier EIR has adequately addressed the subject of cumulative impacts, such impacts need not be revisited in second or third-tier documents…For such site-specific approvals, CEQA generally applies only to impacts that are peculiar to the parcel or project.” As discussed below, the project would not have new or project site-specific impacts, and would be consistent with the TOD Strategy EIR. In accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15168(c)(3), when a program EIR is relied on for a subsequent activity, the lead agency must incorporate feasible mitigation measures and alternatives developed in the program EIR into the subsequent activities. The applicable TOD Strategy EIR mitigation measures, General Plan policies, and General Plan EIR mitigation measures outlined in the TOD Strategy EIR (Table 3) would be required of the project. The environmental resource areas most relevant to and impacted by the project are analyzed below. Upon review of the project’s Air Quality/Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Report (Appendix A), Geotechnical Investigation (Appendix B), and Traffic Impact Study (Appendix C), it was determined that the project’s impacts would be mitigated to a less than significant level through implementation of the General Plan policies and General Plan EIR mitigation measures outlined in Table 3, as well as City standard conditions of approval. The following is a brief analysis of the project’s potential impacts on several resource areas and its consistency with the TOD Strategy EIR. AIR QUALITY/GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS The following air quality/greenhouse gas analysis is based on an air quality/GHG study prepared for the project by Michael Baker International (2017), included as Appendix A. The air quality/GHG study utilized data from the traffic impact study (Appendix C) from Scenario 3, the only scenario in the traffic study that included the proposed project. As explained in the Traffic and Transportation discussion below, Scenario 3 includes all four phases of the SLTC development buildout, including the existing 135,000 square foot office building and 780-stall parking structure, two more proposed office towers totaling 285,000 square feet combined, and the proposed project consisting of 220,638 square feet. As such, the project represents only a fraction of the total impacts identified in the air quality/GHG study and analyzed below for the entire Scenario 3. 163