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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 60 Plan Bay Area 2050 is the long-range regional plan for the San Francisco Bay area with 35 strategies focused on improving housing, the economy, transportation, and the environment (Association of Bay Area Governments/Metropolitan Transportation Commission 2021). The project would be consistent with the Play Bay Area 2050 because it would provide new infill housing, would add pedestrian connections between Muscari Street and Elderberry way where a pedestrian connection does not currently exist, and would increase residential density near an existing bus stop. Continued implementation of State policies to reduce GHG emissions associated with energy use, including the Renewable Portfolio Standard and Title 24 of the California Building Code would reduce the project’s anticipated emissions by decreasing energy use, or by providing a “cleaner” (less GHG-intensive) mix of electricity to the project from the regional utility. San Leandro is served by EBCE, a community choice aggregation that automatically opts residential customers into an energy plan which would provide between 40 and 100 percent renewable energy to the project (EBCE 2022a; EBCE 2022b). By complying with existing policies and regulations, the project would be generally consistent with these existing requirements. Based on the discussion and consistency analysis above, the project would not conflict with any plan, policy, or regulation intended to reduce GHG emissions. Impacts would be less than significant. Conclusion The project’s impacts related to GHG emissions would be no greater than the less than significant impacts identified in the General Plan EIR for the plan as a whole. Neither would they result in new specific effects not addressed in the prior EIR, nor require new mitigation measures. Accordingly, no additional review is required.