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City of San Leandro Proposed Guidelines for Analyzing VMT December 8, 2023 Page 4 of 12 3.Local Serving. The project is local-serving retail/public facilities (grocery store, neighborhood school, library, drug store, dry cleaners, gym, etc.) not exceeding 50,000 square feet in size. 4.Affordable Housing. The project consists of 100% affordable housing. 5.Transit Priority Area (TPA). The project is located within a 0.5-mile of a major transit stops (i.e., the BART stations or the bus rapid transit stations) or high-quality transit corridors. Maps that show the TPAs in San Leandro as of August 2023 are attached at the end of this memorandum. 6.Low-VMT Area. The project is located in an area where existing VMT per capita meets the VMT thresholds (e.g., 15% below existing rates of VMT for residential and office uses and below the existing average VMT rate for industrial and warehouse uses). Figures 1 and 2 show the Low-VMT areas in San Leandro based on the latest version of the Alameda County Transportation Commission (CTC) Travel Demand Model as of August 2023. (Note that Alameda CTC is currently updating their Travel Demand Model and the updated Model may identify different areas as Low-VMT areas.) 7.Infill Residential Developments. The project is a residential development with a minimum density of 30 dwelling units per acre, qualifies as an infill development (Public Resources Code, § 21099(a)(4)), and is located in the areas eligible for the infill residential screening as shown on Figure 2.1 Projects are not eligible for the location-based screening (Transit Priority Area [#5], Low-VMT area [#6], or Infill Residential Development [#7]) if one or more of the following are true: •Project is low density (<0.75 FAR) •Project provides more parking than the estimated demand for the project (Project parking demand can be estimated using the latest version of the ITE Parking Generation Manual or other defensible sources) •Project replaces existing affordable housing units with a smaller number of market rate units •Project has project-specific or location-specific characteristics that indicates it will generate significant levels of VMT (examples include a project with lower density than 1 This screening criterion is developed in addition to the screening criteria recommended by the OPR. It is based on the average home-based VMT per resident as estimated by the Alameda CTC Model and the application of Strategy T-1 (increasing residential densities) per the CAPCOA Handbook. According to the CAPCOA Handbook, the elasticity of VMT with respect to residential density is -0.22, meaning that a 1 percent increase in development density would reduce VMT by about 0.22 percent. The CAPCOA Handbook also sets a maximum VMT reduction of 30 percent from baseline conditions for this strategy. Figure 2 shows the areas of San Leandro where developments with a density of 30 or more units per acre would have a home-based VMT per resident below the threshold of significance based on the application of the CAPCOA Handbook Strategy T-1 to the baseline VMT metrics estimated by the Alameda CTC Model. The technical details and the policy justifications for this criterion are provided in a white paper prepared for MTC.