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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 110 According to the General Plan EIR, buildout would increase water demand by approximately 2 million gallons per day (mgd), which would be less than 1 percent of the 229 mgd total projected demand in the EBMUD service territory. The water demand associated with General Plan buildout would be served with available and planned water supplies provided by EBMUD. Furthermore, the water supply and infrastructure related goals, policies, and actions contained in the General Plan would ensure that new development would minimize impacts to water supply. Additional wastewater generated with General Plan buildout can be accommodated without the need for new treatment facilities. The General Plan EIR conservatively assumes that 90 percent of the increased water demand becomes wastewater which would mean General Plan buildout would generate an increase of 1.8 mgd total, of which 0.6 mgd would go to the Oro Loma plant which is within its available capacity. As General Plan development would largely occur on infill or already developed sites and would not require alteration of the course of an existing stream or river, stormwater runoff volumes would not be substantially increased. Furthermore, with the implementation of Alameda County Clean Water Program C.3 provisions for new projects, there would not be a significant increase in stormwater runoff to the City’s storm drains. Accordingly, the General Plan EIR finds potential impacts related to water, wastewater, and stormwater drainage to be less than significant with the implementation of General Plan Policies OSC-7.2, OSC-7.3, OSC-7.4, and CD-7.4 which incorporate water conservation measures into new development to reduce overall water demand and need for water treatment. According to the General Plan EIR, buildout would generate approximately 179,630 pounds per day or 90 tons per day of solid waste. Currently the City’s solid waste is distributed between four landfills: Altamont Landfill, Forward Sanitary Landfill, Potrero Hills Landfill, and Vasco Road Sanitary Landfill which have a combined capacity of 26,748 tons per day (City of San Leandro 2016b).8 If one or more of these landfills were unavailable in the future, it is likely the city’s solid waste could be redistributed to another landfill that serves the city. The solid waste generation would be adequately handled by existing landfills. In addition, implementation of General Plan Policy OSC-7.1 and Actions OSC-7.1A, OSC-7.1.B, and OSC-7.1.D focused on waste reduction through recycling, composting, and disincentivizing waste production and improper waste disposal would further reduce the amount of solid waste in landfills. Electricity use is projected to increase from 487,751,630 kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2015 to 607,254,929 kWh in 2035 which would be a 25 percent increase in electricity use over 20 years. Total natural gas use is projected to increase from 26,451 therms in 2015 to 32,511,466 therms in 2035 under the General Plan; a 23 percent increase in natural gas use over 20 years. Buildout according to the General Plan would not significantly increase energy demands within the service territory and would not require new energy supply facilities or transmission infrastructure. In addition, implementation of General Plan policies such as Policy OSC-8.1 and OSC-8.2 which focus on encouraging energy efficiency and conservation would further reduce demand for utility electrical and gas facilities. The following describes the analysis included in the General Plan EIR (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 8According to the 2035 General Plan EIR, the Forward Sanitary Landfill and Vasco Road Sanitary Landfill would close prior to the beginning of the project’s operation. However, since the publishing of the EIR, the Forward Sanitary Landfill has had an approved expansion which extends it operation date until approximately 2036 (San Joaquin County 2018). In addition, the revised closure year for Vasco Road is now 2035 (Alameda County Waste Management Authority 2020).