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LSA ASSOCIATES, INC. SEPTEMBER 2016 ROCKETSHIP REDWOOD CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROJECT INITIAL STUDY/ MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION P:\RWC1401B Rocketship School\PRODUCTS\IS-MND\Public\Rocketship Public Review 09-29-16.docx (09/29/16) PUBLIC REVIEW DRAFT 48 California,48 and ARB’s Climate Change Scoping Plan: a Framework for Change.49 The reports identify strategies to reduce California’s emissions to the levels proposed in Executive Order S-3-05 and AB 32. The adopted Scoping Plan includes proposed GHG reductions from direct regulations, alternative compliance mechanisms, monetary and non-monetary incentives, voluntary actions, and market-based mechanisms such as cap-and-trade systems. In addition to reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, AB 32 directed ARB to identify a list of “discrete early action GHG reduction measures” that can be adopted and made enforceable by January 1, 2010.50 In June 2007 ARB approved a list of 37 early action measures, including three discrete early action measures (Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Restrictions on High Global Warming Potential Refrigerants, and Landfill Methane Capture). The ARB adopted additional early action measures in October 2007 that tripled the number of discrete early action measures. ARB’s focus in identifying the 44 early action items was to recommend measures that ARB staff concluded were “expected to yield significant GHG emission reductions, and likely to be cost- effective and technologically feasible.”51 The combination of early action measures is estimated to reduce Statewide GHG emissions by nearly 16 MMT. Accordingly, the 44 early action items focus on industrial production processes, agriculture, and transportation sectors. Early action items associated with industrial production and agriculture do not apply to the proposed project. The transportation sector early action items, which include truck efficiency, low carbon fuel standard, proper tire inflation, truck stop electrification and strengthening light duty vehicle standards, are either not specifically applicable to the proposed project or, if implemented, would result in a reduction of GHG emissions associated with the project (i.e., emissions from vehicles traveling to the project site would be reduced due to implementation of light duty vehicle standards). Measures implemented as part of the Scoping Plan at the Statewide level that would reduce project-specific emissions include emission reductions, such as light-duty vehicle GHG standards (“Pavley standards”), low carbon fuel standard, and energy efficiency measures (i.e., electricity use associated with the project lighting). The Redwood City Community Climate Action Plan52 provides the community with tools they can use to help reduce their own and the community’s, impact on climate change. The Plan includes sections on Building Community, Transportation and Land Use, Built Environment, Urban Ecology, and Waste Reduction and Recycling. The project sponsor intends to implement energy conservation measures and green building techniques. For example, the remodeled building would include interior and exterior LED lighting with continuously dimmable ballasts, a feature that automatically adjusts the brightness when there is 48 California Air Resources Board, 2007. Expanded List of Early Action Measures to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California Recommended for Board Consideration. October. 49 California Air Resources Board, 2008. Climate Change Scoping Plan: a framework for change. December. 50 Discrete early action measures are measures that are required to be adopted as regulations and made effective no later than January 1, 2010, the date established by Health and Safety Code (HSC) Section 38560.5. 51 California Air Resources Board, 2007, op. cit. 52 Redwood City, City of, 2014. Redwood City Community Climate Action Plan. ATTY/RESO.0032/PC RESO APPROVING CEQA - 860 CHARTER ST. EXHIBIT A REV: 06-15-17 PR Page 56 of 124