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Environmental Checklist Air Quality General Plan Consistency Checklist 25 have a more severe impact than discussed in the General Plan EIR due to substantial new information. Project-Specific Impacts a. Would the project conflict with or obstruct implementation of the applicable air quality plan? As addressed in the General Plan EIR, buildout of the 2035 General Plan would be consistent with the BAAQMD clean air plan, Spare the Air Cool the Climate: A Blueprint for Clean Air and Climate Protection in the Bay Area (2017 Clean Air Plan) (BAAQMD 2017a). The General Plan EIR found that projected vehicle miles traveled per service population would decrease under the 2035 General Plan; therefore, resulting in reduced emissions from future development. The General Plan EIR found this impact to be less than significant as implementation would not impair the BAAQMD’s ability to meet national and state air quality attainment standards. The proposed project would result in a population increase consistent with the 2035 General Plan; therefore, the project would be consistent with the General Plan EIR. Accordingly, project impacts would be similar to those identified in the General Plan EIR and no additional analysis would be required. BAAQMD adopted the 2017 Clean Air Plan in April 2017 in compliance with the legal mandate that the 2010 Clean Air Plan be updated to comply with state air quality planning requirements as codified in the California Health and Safety Code. Although the General Plan EIR was prepared before BAAQMD adopted the 2017 Clean Air Plan and does not evaluate potential conflicts with the updated version, the 2017 Clean Air Plan utilizes the growth and population forecasts of the City’s 2035 General Plan. Growth under the project would be consistent with that anticipated by the 2035 General Plan (also refer to Section 4.11 of the General Plan EIR and Section 14, Population and Housing, of this document). Therefore, the project would be consistent with growth and population forecasts used in the 2017 Clean Air Plan and would not conflict with or obstruct the implementation of an applicable air quality plan. LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT OR LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT WITH MITIGATION INCORPORATED b. Would the project result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of any criteria pollutant for which the project region is non-attainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air quality standard? c. Would the project expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations? The General Plan EIR assessed air quality impacts on a programmatic level and recognized that site- specific impacts would be assessed during project review. To determine if further review under CEQA is necessary, the project was compared to the BAAQMD air pollutant screening criteria. Because the project includes demolition of existing structures, an air quality analysis is required. Table 3 presents the BAAQMD significance thresholds for construction/demolition and operational- related criteria air pollutant and precursor emissions used for the purposes of this analysis. These represent the levels at which a projects individual emissions of criteria air pollutants or precursors would result in a cumulatively considerable contribution to the San Francisco Bay Area Air Basin’s existing air quality conditions.