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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 102 Operation Vehicular trips by residents and visitors to and from the project site would add to roadway traffic in the City of San Leandro. Trip generation estimates were estimated to be a total 13 a.m. and 18 p.m. peak hour vehicle trips and 170 daily vehicle trips (Appendix TRA). The project’s estimated trip generation does not reflect the site’s proximity (within 500 feet) to a bus stop served by AC Transit Local Line 28 with service to the BART Bay Fair Station or the BART Bay Fair Station approximately 0.7 mile southeast of the project site (AC Transit 2020). This provides a conservative analysis, as trips were not reduced to estimate residents using alternative modes of transportation. The project’s trip generation would incrementally increase existing traffic volumes on Halcyon Drive, Muscari Street, Elderberry Way, and other nearby roadways. The estimated average daily traffic on Halcyon Drive is 20,800 trips (City of San Leandro 2016b), and the project would increase daily trips on it by 170 (0.8 percent). The project would result in an incremental increase in delay but would not substantially increase traffic volumes along Halcyon Drive. There are sidewalks and crosswalks along the route from the project to the BART Bay Fair station. As part of the project, sidewalks would be built along the new public street connecting to existing sidewalks along Muscari Street and Elderberry Way. This would improve pedestrian access to the project site. The project’s location approximately 0.7 miles northwest of the BART Bay Fair station and within 500 feet of an AC Transit bus stop which offers service to the BART Bay Fair station would encourage public transit use. The addition of new residents to an area with access to public transit would be consistent with General Plan Policy T-1.4 which focuses on transit-oriented development. Therefore, project operation would comply with applicable plans and General Plan policies. Impacts would be less than significant. b. Would the project conflict or be inconsistent with CEQA Guidelines section 15064.3, subdivision (b)? CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.3(b) describes criteria for analyzing transportation impacts. Depending on the type of project, different thresholds of significance are applicable. Section 15064.3(b)(1) applies to land use projects, including the proposed project: “Vehicle miles traveled exceeding an applicable threshold of significance may indicate a significant impact. Generally, projects within one-half mile of either an existing major transit stop or a stop along an existing high quality transit corridor should be presumed to cause a less than significant transportation impact. Projects that decrease vehicle miles traveled in the project area compared to existing conditions should be presumed to have a less than significant transportation impact.” For residential projects in areas with a similar mix of existing uses, pursuant to the Office of Planning and Research’s Technical Advisory, projects would be presumed to have a less-than-significant impact if the existing residential VMT per capita in its corresponding transportation analysis zone (TAZ) is at least 15 percent below the regional or citywide average (OPR 2018). The project is located within the Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) TAZ #1472 (Appendix TRA), which has a VMT per capita of 10.01 to 15.0. The corresponding threshold for Alameda County to consider a location to have low VMT is 16.5. As the TAZ containing the project location generates 12.74 VMT per capita, the proposed project would be within a location with low VMT (Appendix