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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO RE: Exhibit A -CONSISTENCY MEMORANDUM FOR THE SLTC MIXED-USE PROJECT (PLN16-oo67) JULY 17, 2017 Paae 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 whetherthe project would exceed i,1oo metric tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO e) or if the project would generate 4.6 metrictons of CO,e perservice population peryear. 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 perdwelling, 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 orderto 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 dailytrips 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 bytwo (1,844) to derive the service population attributable to customers and employees. Therefore, the project service population would be 2,384. Asshown in Table 8 below, dividing the project GHG emissions yields a metricton perservice population ratio of o.6. This ratio of o.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 foroperational GHG emissions and would result in a less than significant GHG impact. The TOD Strategy EIRfound that GHG impacts for TOD Strategy buildout would be less than significant after implementation of TOD EIR mitigation measures AQ -2a and -b. The projectwould complywith 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 7.74 residents/dwelling x297 dwelling units = 54o residents