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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 26 project’s operation phase. The evaluation shall be prepared in conformance with the BAAQMD methodology in assessing air quality impacts. If operation-related criteria air pollutants are determined to have the potential to exceed the BAAQMD thresholds of significance, as identified in BAAQMD’s CEQA Guidelines, the City of San Leandro Community Development Department shall require that applicants for new development projects incorporate mitigation measures to reduce air pollutant emissions during operation activities. Mitigation Measure AQ-2B-1 As part of the City’s development approval process, the City shall require applicants for future development projects to comply with the current Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s basic control measures for reducing construction emissions of PM10 (Table 8-1, Basic Construction Mitigation Measures Recommended for All Proposed Projects, of the BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines). Mitigation Measure AQ-2B-2 Prior to issuance of construction permits, development project applicants that are subject to CEQA and exceed the screening sizes in the BAAQMD’s CEQA Guidelines shall prepare and submit to the City of San Leandro a technical assessment evaluating potential project construction-related air quality impacts. The evaluation shall be prepared in conformance with the BAAQMD methodology in assessing air quality impacts. If construction-related criteria air pollutants are determined to have the potential to exceed the BAAQMD thresholds of significance, as identified in the BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines, the City of San Leandro shall require that applicants for new development projects incorporate mitigation measures to reduce air pollutant emissions during construction activities to below these thresholds (Table 8-2, Additional Construction Mitigation Measures Recommended for Projects with Construction Emissions Above the Threshold, of the BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines, or applicable construction mitigation measures subsequently approved by BAAQMD). These identified measures shall be incorporated into all appropriate construction documents (e.g., construction management plans) submitted to the City and shall be verified by the City’s Engineering/Transportation Department, Building and/or Planning Division, and/or Community Development Department. The following describes the analysis included in the General Plan EIR and also provides a streamlined review to determine whether there would be project-specific impacts that are either 1) peculiar to the project or the parcel on which the project is located, 2) were not previously analyzed in the General Plan EIR as significant effects, 3) are potentially significant off-site impacts and cumulative impacts that were not previously discussed in the General Plan EIR, and 4) are now determined to have a more severe impact than discussed in the General Plan EIR due to substantial new information. Air Quality Environmental and Regulatory Setting The project site is located within the San Francisco Bay Area Air Basin (Basin), which is under the jurisdiction of BAAQMD. As the local air quality management agency, BAAQMD is responsible for monitoring air pollutant levels to determine whether national or state air quality standards are exceeded, and, if they are, to develop strategies to meet the standards. Depending on whether the standards are met or exceeded, the Basin is classified as being in “attainment” or “nonattainment.” Under federal and state law, air districts are required to prepare air quality improvement plans for pollutants for which the district is in nonattainment. BAAQMD is in nonattainment for the state and federal ozone standards, the state and federal PM2.5 (particulate