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3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST <br />City of San Leandro 1388 Bancroft Avenue Project <br />November 2018 Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration <br />3.0-41 <br />events at neighborhood library branches. Continue to participate in state-wide and national green building initiatives to promote green building practices. <br />Goal: Encourage development which promotes walkable communities. Policies to make San <br />Leandro more attractive and inviting to pedestrian, bicyclists and public transit users are <br />already articulated in the San Leandro General Plan, Transportation Element. The following measures and actions are highlighted for further consideration, as significant strategies to <br />reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the community: <br />• Develop design standards for parking lots and encourage placement to the rear of <br />businesses. This would ensure that parking contributes positively to the overall character of the street and neighborhood. <br />• Allow reduced parking requirements where specific conditions are met. These <br />conditions should include transportation demand management measures, such as <br />shuttle buses to BART and other designations, carpooling and vanpooling programs, shared cars, and bicycle storage facilities. <br />CHECKLIST DISCUSSION <br />a) Less Than Significant Impact. The project’s GHG emissions would include short-term emissions from construction (primarily from equipment exhaust) and long-term regional <br />emissions from project operation. Operational emissions would include those associated <br />with new vehicular trips and indirect source emissions, such as electricity use, energy <br />resulting from water use, and emissions resulting from solid waste collection and disposal. <br />The BAAQMD has developed screening criteria to provide lead agencies and project <br />applicants with a conservative indication of whether a project could result in potentially <br />significant GHG emissions impacts. Projects below the applicable screening criteria shown <br />in Table 3-1 of the BAAQMD’s (2017a) CEQA Air Quality Guidelines would not exceed the 1,100 MT of CO2e per year GHG threshold of significance for projects other than permitted <br />stationary sources. The pertinent GHG screening level for development of mid-rise <br />apartments is 87 dwelling units. As described above, the BAAQMD screening criteria were <br />developed to account for the State’s goals of reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The first full year of operation for the project is anticipated to be 2021. The State’s <br />next GHG reduction goal is to reduce emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. <br />Therefore, to be conservative, the project was compared to a screening criterion reduced by 40 percent, or 52 mid-rise apartments. The project would develop 45 mid-rise apartments. Therefore, the project would not exceed the BAAQMD’s project-level <br />threshold for GHG emissions, adjusted for the State’s 2030 emissions goals, and impacts <br />would be less than significant. <br />b) Less Than Significant Impact. The project is consistent with the General Plan land use designation for the site. However, the project would exceed the maximum density allowed <br />per the current zoning, and the applicant is requesting a rezoning for a Planned <br />Development (PD) overlay. While the project could result in a small population increase above that allowed under the current zoning, the project would include features to <br />increase energy efficiency and to reduce mobile emissions in support of GHG reduction <br />strategies in the region and the city: <br />1. The project has been evaluated for consistency with the GreenTRIP program and awarded conditional GreenTRIP certification (Rizzo 2018). GreenTRIP is a certification