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City of San Leandro 14143-14273 Washington Avenue Warehouse Project 34 Impact Analysis a. Would the project conflict with or obstruct implementation of the applicable air quality plan? The California Clean Air Act requires that air districts create a Clean Air Plan that describes how the jurisdiction will meet air quality standards. The most recently adopted applicable air quality plan is BAAQMD’s 2017 Plan. As described in the Air Quality Management Section, the 2017 Plan updates the most recent Bay Area ozone plan, the 2010 Clean Air Plan. Pursuant to air quality planning requirements, the 2017 control strategy includes all feasible measures to reduce emissions of ozone precursors – ROG and NOx – and reduce transport of ozone and its precursors to neighboring air basins. The 2017 Plan builds upon and enhances BAAQMD’s efforts to reduce emissions of fine particulate matter and TACs. The 2017 Plan does not include control measures that apply directly to individual development projects. Instead, the control strategy includes control measures related to stationary sources, transportation, energy, buildings, agriculture, natural and working lands, waste management, water, and super GHG-pollutants. The 2017 Plan focuses on two goals: ▪ Protect air quality and health at the regional and local scale by attaining all national and state air quality standards and eliminating disparities among Bay Area communities in cancer health risk from TACs ▪ Protect the climate by reducing Bay Area GHG emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 Under BAAQMD’s methodology, a determination of consistency with the 2017 Plan should demonstrate that a project: ▪ Supports the primary goals of the air quality plan ▪ Includes applicable control measures from the air quality plan ▪ Does not disrupt or hinder implementation of any air quality plan control measures A project that would not support the 2017 Plan’s goals would not be considered consistent with the 2017 Plan. On an individual project basis, consistency with BAAQMD quantitative thresholds is interpreted as demonstrating support for the clean air plan’s goals. The project would include applicable control measures from the 2017 Plan. Applicable control measures such as green building construction, waste diversion, and water conservation would indicate support for the clean air plan goals on an individual project basis. The proposed project would include construction of seven electric vehicle charging stations. Additionally, the project would utilize energy efficient LED lighting and controls that would exceed the requirements of Title 24 of the California Energy Commission’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards, as well as City energy efficiency requirements. Plumbing fixtures used for the proposed project would be high-efficiency fixtures, which would minimize the potential inefficient or wasteful consumption of energy related to water and wastewater. The project would not use natural gas in accordance with City of San Leandro reach codes effective as of January 2023. As shown in the response to criteria b and c (see below), the proposed project would not result in exceedances of BAAQMD 2017 thresholds for criteria air pollutants and thus, would not disrupt or hinder implementation of 2017 Plan control measures. Therefore, the proposed project would be consistent with the criteria of the 2017 Clean Air Plan. Impacts would be less than significant. LESS-THAN-SIGNIFICANT IMPACT