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Reso 2024-006 Transportation Element of the General Plan
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IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2024-XXX <br />RESOLUTION TO ADOPT TEXT AMENDMENTS TO THE TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT OF THE 2035 <br />GENERAL PLAN TO REPLACE LEVEL OF SERVICE (LOS) WITH VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED (VMT) AS THE CRITERIA <br />TO BE USED FOR TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT <br />(CEQA) IN COMPLIANCE WITH SENATE BILL (SB) 743 AND CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15064.3 <br />WHEREAS, the California Government Code Section 65300 et seq. requires every city and county in <br />California to adopt a General Plan for its long-range development, and further, to periodically update that plan <br />to reflect current conditions and issue; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2016, the City Council adopted the 2035 San Leandro General Plan (“General Plan”) <br />covering the 20-year period from 2015 through 2035; and <br />WHEREAS, the General Plan includes goals and policies related to land use, transportation/traffic, <br />infrastructure, and design and establishes uses and development standards within the City; and <br />WHEREAS, the General Plan includes text and diagrams specifying the distribution, location, and extent <br />of the uses of land and other essential facilities within the City; and <br />WHEREAS, the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines (“CEQA Guidelines”) <br />encourage public agencies to develop and publish thresholds of significance to be used in determining the <br />significance of a project’s environmental effects; and <br />WHEREAS, CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.7(b) requires that thresholds of significance must be <br />adopted by ordinance, resolution, rule, or regulations, developed through a public review process, and be <br />supported by substantial evidence; and <br />WHEREAS, Senate Bill 743, enacted in 2013 and codified in Public Resources Code Section 21099, <br />mandated changes to the CEQA Guidelines regarding the criteria for determining the significance of <br />transportation impacts of projects throughout California; and <br />WHEREAS, in 2018, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (“OPR”) proposed, and the <br />California Natural Resources Agency certified and adopted, new CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.3 that <br />identifies vehicle miles traveled (“VMT”) as the most appropriate metric to evaluate transportation <br />impacts; and <br />WHEREAS, as a result, automobile delay, as measured by Level of Service (LOS) and other similar <br />metrics, no longer constitutes a significant environmental effect under CEQA; and <br />WHEREAS, staff worked with a transportation consultant, Fehr & Peers, to develop administrative <br />guidelines for analyzing VMT consistent with SB 743 (2013), the CEQA Guidelines, and technical guidance <br />provided by OPR; and DRAFT
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