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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 21 emissions associated with project-related new vehicular trips and indirect source emissions, such as electricity usage for lighting. BAAQMD does not have an adopted threshold of significance for construction-related GHG emissions. For operational GHG emissions, the applicable BAAQMD threshold of significance is whether the project would exceed 1,100 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) or if the project would generate 4.6 metric tons of CO2e per service population per year. The proposed project’s service population (project employees, patrons, and residents) is identified in order to present the project’s service population efficiency in comparison to the BAAQMD efficiency- based threshold of 4.6 metric tons of CO2e per service population per year. The majority of people visiting the residential component of the project would be residents. According to the California Department of Finance (DOF), residential dwellings in San Leandro average 2.74 occupants per dwelling, which would result in 5403 project residents. The majority of people visiting the commercial uses associated with the project would be customers and employees. In order to estimate the number of customers and employees who visit the site, the number of potential project-related daily vehicle trips is divided by two to account for each service population member making one trip to and one trip from the nonresidential use; therefore, each project customer and employee would count for two trips. This is a conservative assumption since each vehicle is assumed to accommodate only one person, whereas many of the vehicles would accommodate more than one person. As cited in the traffic analysis, included as Appendix C, prepared by Kimely Horn (2017), the proposed project would generate approximately 4,388 trips per day. However, 700 of these daily trips are attributable to the residential component of the project; thus, the nonresidential land uses would generate approximately 3,688 trips per day. The total number of trips per day is divided by two (1,844) to derive the service population attributable to customers and employees. Therefore, the project service population would be 2,384. As shown in Table 8 below, dividing the project GHG emissions yields a metric ton per service population ratio of 0.6. This ratio of 0.6 metric tons of CO2e per service population annually is below the BAAQMD efficiency-based threshold of 4.6. Therefore, the project would not exceed BAAQMD significance thresholds for operational GHG emissions and would result in a less than significant GHG impact. The TOD Strategy EIR found that GHG impacts for TOD Strategy buildout would be less than significant after implementation of TOD EIR mitigation measures AQ-2a and -b. The project would comply with the City’s updated General Plan EIR mitigation measures AQ-2a and -2b, which require projects to comply with the current Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s basic control measures for reducing GHG emissions. As such, the project would not exceed the service population operational GHG Emissions BAAQMD threshold and the impact would be less than significant. Therefore, no further analysis is needed, and the project would be consistent with the City’s TOD Strategy EIR. 3 2.74 residents/dwelling x 197 dwelling units = 540 residents 167