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during construction and maintaining a 15 mile per hour speed limit on the project site. With <br />adherence to these requirements, impacts would be less than significant. <br />TOXIC AIR CONTAMINANTS <br />Pursuant to the recent ruling in the California Building Industry Association (CBIA) v BAAQMD <br />(2015), impacts of the environment on the project is not an impact under CEQA. Nonetheless, <br />BAAQMD’s CEQA Guidelines include methodology for jurisdictions wanting to evaluate the potential <br />impacts from placing sensitive receptors proximate to major air pollutant sources. For assessing <br />community risk and hazards for siting a new receptor, sources within a 1,000-foot radius of a project <br />site are typically considered. Sources are defined as freeways, high volume roadways (with volume <br />of 10,000 vehicles or more per day or 1,000 trucks per day), and permitted sources (BAAQMD 2017). <br />Under the proposed Specific Plan, new auto service/sales uses, industrial uses, dry cleaners, or <br />gasoline dispensing stations would not be allowed in the Specific Plan Area. Therefore, the proposed <br />Specific Plan would not increase the number of stationary or permitted sources that emit TACs in <br />the Specific Plan Area. However, there are several high volume roadways and freeways in and <br />around the Specific Plan Area, including I-238, I-580, I-880, East 14th Street, Hesperian Boulevard, <br />Fairmont Drive, Halycon Drive, and 150th Avenue. The proposed Specific Plan would involve placing <br />new sensitive receptors in proximity to these high volume roadways and freeways. In accordance <br />with 2035 General Plan Action EH-3.4.B, health risk assessments would be required for new <br />residential development and other sensitive other sensitive land use projects within 1,000 feet of <br />major sources of TACs, including freeways and roadways with over 10,000 vehicles per day. As <br />appropriate, mitigation measures (such as air filtration systems) to reduce the potential exposure to <br />particulate matter, carbon monoxide, diesel fumes, and other potential health hazards identified in <br />the HRA would be incorporated into the site development plan as a component of the proposed <br />project. In addition, placement of sensitive receptors proximate to existing sources of air pollutants <br />would not substantially worsen the concentrations of air pollutants; therefore, the proposed project <br />would not exacerbate the air quality hazard. Impacts related to TACs would be less than significant. <br />Mitigation Measures <br />Mitigation Measure AQ-2B-1 from the City’s 2035 General Plan EIR, as revised to reflect the latest <br />BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines (May 2017), is required. <br />AQ-2B-1 Construction Emissions <br />As part of the City’s development approval process, the City shall require applicants for future <br />development projects to comply with the current Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s basic <br />control measures for reducing construction emissions of PM10 (Table 8-2, Basic Construction <br />Mitigation Measures Recommended for All Proposed Projects, of the May 2017 BAAQMD CEQA <br />Guidelines). <br />Significance After Mitigation <br />MM AQ-2B-1 from the City’s 2035 General Plan EIR would ensure that applicants for future projects <br />in the Specific Plan Area include control measures to reduce construction-related emissions. With <br />adherence to this measure, impacts related to air pollution emissions would be less than significant. <br />151