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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 />3.0-75 <br />item a), there is enough excess capacity at the plant to serve the proposed project, and no expansion of the facility would be required. <br />EBMUD provides water service in San Leandro. As described in the City’s General Plan EIR, <br />the projected net increase in water demand at buildout of the General Plan <br />(approximately 2 mgd) is less than 1 percent of the total projected demand in EBMUD’s service territory (approximately 229 mgd) (San Leandro 2016b). The project density would exceed what is allowed by the current zoning but would be within the density permitted <br />for the Downtown Mixed Use General Plan land use designation. Assuming a water <br />demand rate of 179.4 gpd per dwelling unit, the project’s water demand would be 8,073 gpd, compared to the 2,269 gpd existing water usage of the medical office uses (assuming <br />0.093 gpd per square foot).4 The project’s incremental demand for water would be less <br />than 1 percent of the projected net increase in water demand at buildout of the General <br />Plan, which in turn is less than 1 percent of the total projected demand in EBMUD’s service territory. Therefore, this impact would be less than significant. <br />c) Less Than Significant Impact. All site runoff would be directed from on-site drainage pipes <br />to the City’s existing municipal storm drainage system and ultimately to the countywide <br />drainage system. All project-related drainage improvements would be constructed as part of the project per the City’s standard conditions for new development. In addition, the <br />proposed project is subject to NPDES requirements per the Municipal Regional Permit and <br />the Alameda County Clean Water Program. The project would include bioretention areas and stormwater best management practices for pollution prevention, treatment, and detention on the project site. With these standard development requirements and <br />measures in place, the impact would be less than significant. <br />f) Less Than Significant Impact. Solid waste services for the existing medical office buildings on the site are currently provided by ACI, which would continue to provide such services once the project is developed. The disposal rate per resident in San Leandro in 2014 was <br />4.6 pounds of solid waste per person per day, which was below the CalRecycle target of <br />8.7 pounds per day per resident (San Leandro 2016b). Based on this rate, the project would generate approximately 589 pounds of solid waste per person per day. The solid waste <br />generated by the project would be less than 1 percent of the 179,630 pounds per day <br />expected to be generated at buildout of the City’s General Plan in 2035. The City’s <br />General Plan EIR noted that the total waste generated at buildout of the General Plan is less than 5 percent of the smallest daily capacity of the four main landfills accepting solid <br />waste generated in San Leandro. Therefore, the addition of the project’s solid waste would <br />represent a negligible increase that would not overburden the landfills serving the city. This <br />impact would be less than significant. <br />g) Less Than Significant Impact. The proposed project would be required to comply with all <br />standards related to solid waste diversion, reduction, and recycling during construction <br />and operation. The project has undergone solid waste and recycling site plan review by the San Leandro Public Works Department to ensure consistency with applicable requirements. Therefore, the proposed project is anticipated to result in less than significant <br />impacts related to potential conflicts with federal, state, and local statutes and regulations <br />related to solid waste. <br /> <br />4 Rates are based on factors provided by EBMUD (San Leandro 2017).