Reso23-02 0009 PC Reso Adopt CEQA

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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Focused General Plan Update 43 Final Environmental Impact Report January 2023 cumulative transportation impact. Mitigation Measure TR-1 would require all future residential development projects that do not meet the City’s VMT screening criteria and exceed the City’s home-based residential VMT threshold to develop a TDM Plan and quantify the VMT effectiveness of the plan. Residential projects that are unable to fully reduce their VMT impact because of land use context (i.e., low-density suburban area, low transit access, etc.) would be required to demonstrate that they are making a good faith effort toward maximizing their TDM plan and associated VMT reductions. However, since the City cannot demonstrate that the VMT from each future residential development project would be reduced to the degree that is needed to eliminate the VMT impact, the home- based VMT per resident impact would be considered significant and unavoidable with Mitigation TR-1. Mitigation Measure TR-2 would require the City to create a community- wide multimodal transportation impact fee program and/or support and work cooperatively with C/CAG to implement a countywide or sub-regional VMT mitigation program to which future residential projects would be required to pay applicable community-wide, countywide, and/or sub-regional VMT fees, once established. However, since the City has no specified timeline for a community-wide multimodal transportation impact fee program and the City has no control of C/CAG’s process and outcome of a regional VMT mitigation program outside its jurisdiction, the home-based VMT per resident impact would be considered significant and unavoidable with Mitigation TR-2. The City Council hereby finds, however, that there are specific economic, environmental, social, legal, technological and other considerations that make infeasible the potential mitigation measures described in the EIR to mitigate the effect of the cumulative transportation impact, and that development facilitated by the Project will provide specific economic, environmental, social, legal, technological and other benefits that will outweigh the significant adverse effects of the cumulative transportation impact, as set forth in the Statement of Overriding Considerations below. This finding is based on the entire record of proceedings for the Project, including but not limited to the discussion and analysis set forth on pages 4.17-35 through 4.17-43 and pages 6-12 through 6-13 of the DEIR, which includes a full statement of the impact and is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety. 6.2.19 Utilities and Service Systems: Mitigation Measures. None. The City has explored the potential to require development that may be constructed under the Project to tie into recycled water infrastructure to reduce demand on potable sources and, thereby, reduce the Project’s cumulative contribution to projected water supply shortages. However, as explained above, it is too speculative at this time to determine whether requiring development under the Project to use recycled water would serve as adequate mitigation and whether said mitigation would reduce potentially significant cumulative impacts to a less than significant level. For example, the feasibility of extending recycled water infrastructure to future development depends on a “critical mass” of development that could connect to new or existing recycled water infrastructure and to the proximity of existing infrastructure to future project sites. Findings Regarding Cumulative Utilities Impact: Based on the FEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that (1) the Project would contribute to a