Reso 2021-113 Adopt 2021 CAP and Addendum to 2035 General Plan

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2021 CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ADDENDUM NO.1 TO THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT CITY OF SAN LEANDRO 3. Environmental Analysis Also, like the Approved Project, some of the proposed 2021 CAP strategies and associated actions could have the potential to result in physical impacts to the environment. These include the following: ■ ME-2: Municipal renewable energy. Install additional renewable energy generation and energy storage systems, including solar hot water, at City facilities as appropriate and feasible. ■ AT-2: Bicycle infrastructure. Expand San Leandro's bicycle network and supportive bicycle infrastructure, including funding buildout of the City's bicycle network as identified in the current Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, to meet commute trip, non -commute trip, and recreational needs. ■ AT-8: Autonomous vehicles. Explore opportunities to effectively reduce GHG emissions associated with autonomous vehicles. (This is a supportive policy that does not create its own GHG emission reductions.) ■ TIE-2: EV charging stations. Increase the availability of publicly accessible EV charging stations at retail centers, offices, and public facilities. ■ WM-1: Increased curbside recycling. Increase participation in curbside recycling programs, including efforts to reduce material contamination and improvements to waste educational programs. ■ WR-5: Styrofoam and single -use plastics reduction. Continue to enforce bans on Styrofoam for food - related businesses and explore opportunities to reduce single -use plastic items. (This is a supportive policy that does not create its own GHG emission reductions.) As previously stated, implementation of these strategies and any associated actions would be subject to applicable federal, state, and/or City regulations and undergo an appropriate level of environmental review and implement mitigation measures from the General Plan EIR as required. As demonstrated in the Certified EIR, all impacts were found to be less than significant or less than significant with mitigation except for the significant and unavoidable impacts in the environmental topics of air quality, GHG emissions, and transportation. The impacts associated with transportation were related to level of service, which is no longer a CEQA concern. Additionally, the Approved Project would not generate any new vehicular trips. Therefore, implementing the Modified Project would not result in a substantial increase in magnitude of the significant and unavoidable transportation impacts of the Approved Project. The impacts associated with air quality were considered significant and unavoidable because the General Plan EIR is a program -level evaluation and it is not possible to predict the specific characteristics of the construction and operation of future projects and accurately model their individual emissions, nor is that appropriate within the scope of a programmatic EIR. Therefore, future development -level projects are unknown, and impacts were conservatively determined to be significant and unavoidable. The General Plan includes policies that would minimize emissions to the extent feasible. General Plan mitigation measures would require implementation of BAAQMD-approved mitigation measures if subsequent environmental review determines that applicants for future development in San Leandro could generate operational or construction emissions in excess of the BAAQMD significance thresholds. An analysis of emissions generated from the operation and construction of specific future projects allowed under the General Plan would be compared to BAAQMD's project -level significance thresholds during individual environmental Page 18 PlaceWorks