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Environmental Checklist Greenhouse Gas Emissions Draft Initial Study – Mitigated Negative Declaration 73 1. Projects must include, at a minimum, the following project design elements: ▪ Buildings  The project will not include natural gas appliances or natural gas plumbing (in both residential and nonresidential development).  The project will not result in any wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary energy usage as determined by the analysis required under CEQA Section 21100(b)(3) and Section 15126.2(b) of the State CEQA Guidelines. ▪ Transportation  Achieve a reduction in project-generated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) below the regional average consistent with the current version of the California Climate Change Scoping Plan (currently 15 percent) or meet a locally adopted Senate Bill 743 VMT target, reflecting the recommendations provided in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research’s Technical Advisory on Evaluating Transportation Impacts in CEQA: − Residential projects: 15 percent below the existing VMT per capita − Office projects: 15 percent below the existing VMT per employee − Retail projects: no net increase in existing VMT  Achieve compliance with off-street electric vehicle requirements in the most recently adopted version of CALGreen Tier 2. Projects must be consistent with a local GHG reduction strategy that meets the criteria under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15183.5(b). According to the 2022 BAAQMD CEQA Thresholds for Evaluating the Significance of Climate Impacts From Land Use Projects and Plans, a qualified GHG reduction strategy that can enable CEQA streamlining benefits for future land use projects must: ▪ Quantify GHG emissions, both existing and projected over a specified period, resulting from activities in a defined geographic area ▪ Establish a level, based on substantial evidence, below which the contribution to GHG emissions from activities covered by the plan would not be cumulatively considerable ▪ Identify and analyze the GHG emissions resulting from specific actions or categories of actions anticipated in the geographic area ▪ Specify measures or a group of measures, including performance standards, that substantial evidence demonstrates, if implemented on a project-by-project basis, would collectively achieve the specified emissions level ▪ Establish a mechanism to monitor the plan’s progress toward achieving the level and to require amendment if the plan is not achieving specified levels ▪ Be adopted in a public process following environmental review This analysis will evaluate the project in terms of consistency with the San Leandro 2021 Climate Action Plan, a local GHG reduction strategy that contains all of the components required under Criterion 2 above.