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Consulting Services Agreement between City of San Leandro and Last revised 07/02/2021 Rincon Consultants for Housing Element Update and EIR Exhibit A – Page 17 of 21 Public Services and Recreation. This section will address potential impacts relating to police protection and fire protection services, schools, and parks and recreational facilities. This section will use existing information and information from service providers to determine service levels and existing and projected gaps in service that may result from anticipated development of approximately 4,000 housing units in the city. Transportation. Kittelson & Associates will prepare descriptions of the transportation network near identified major housing sites including the roadway network, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and transit service. Kittelson will rely on prior documents and any available information to update for changed conditions. Kittelson will prepare the circulation analysis for the Administrative Draft EIR. Thresholds of significance will be established based on the CEQA guidelines. Since the City has not yet adopted VMT guidelines and thresholds, Kittelson will recommend these based on OPR or any recent County guidelines (should they be available). Regarding VMT, the California Office of Planning and Research (OPR), in its Technical Advisory on Evaluation Transportation Impacts in CEQA, December 2018, provides suggested thresholds of significance related to VMT that may be applied for this project. The OPR guidance also includes suggested screening criteria that can be applied to certain projects including small infill developments (less than 110 trips per d ay), developments near major transit facilities, and developments containing 100 percent affordable residential units. The proposed VMT analysis will identify specific housing sites and/or housing types that may qualify for screening out of VMT analysis. Kittelson will determine the VMT per capita associated with the combined housing sites as a whole using Alameda CTC model output for the preferred scenario, focusing on the difference between the “no project” and “proposed project” conditions. If deemed appropriate by the City, Kittelson would also provide VMT per capita estimates developed individually for the largest housing sites (up to ten), applying metrics from the Alameda CTC model including post processing adjustments to account for density and affordability as appropriate. If implementation of the Housing Element is determined to have potentially significant VMT impacts, Kittelson will develop mitigation measures related to VMT reduction, including Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies that may be implemented programmatically or at the project level to reduce VMT impacts. They would either be based on CAPCOA recommendations for TDM, or any available TDM tools currently being developed by Alameda CTC. If it is deemed infeasible to fully mitigate VMT impacts to less than significant levels, Kittelson will identify which mitigation measures are considered to be feasible along with their anticipated efficacy. For mitigation measures deemed to be infeasible, the reasoning for that determination will be explained. As appropriate, Kittelson will also work with the team to incorporate VMT reduction strategies into Housing Element policies. Consistent with the program-level nature of the EIR, the circulation analysis will broadly assess circulation safety and as well as pedestrian, bicycle, and transit modes including consistency with adopted multimodal policies and bicycle network plans. An assessment of emergency access will be qualitative given the programmatic nature of the EIR, focusing primaril y on the accessibility of sites to the regional roadway network and primary emergency responder routes. DocuSign Envelope ID: 52DE9C19-FF3F-4BE0-99DB-BF80F1BD0FBC