Agda Pkt 2024.11.25. Joint SA PFA

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11/15/24 (P:\M-S\RWC2101.04 Docktown CE\PRODUCTS\Docktown_CEMemo_20241115.docx) 12 According to the BAAQMD, regional air pollution is largely a cumulative impact. No single project is sufficient in size to independently create regional nonattainment of ambient air quality standards. Instead, a project’s individual emissions contribute to cumulatively significant adverse air quality impacts. Therefore, if the proposed project’s daily average or annual emissions of construction- or operational-period criteria air pollutants exceed any applicable threshold established by the BAAQMD, the proposed project would result in a considerable contribution to a cumulatively significant impact. As shown in Table B, in the following section, implementation of the proposed project would not generate significant construction-period emissions. Additionally, the proposed project would not result in a significant increase in the generation of vehicle trips or vehicle miles traveled that would increase air pollutant emissions as there is no construction or other operational phase of the project proposed after the deconstruction work. As noted above, the proposed project would generate temporary and short-term increases in noise from construction activities. However, the proposed project and any other project in the surrounding area would be required to conform to the City’s construction noise standards, which would ensure the project’s construction activities would not be considered a cumulatively considerable contribution to the total noise environment in the project vicinity. A significant cumulative impact would also occur if implementation of the proposed project would result in any permanent increase of 3 dBA or more in traffic noise levels. As described below, the proposed project would not result in a significant increase in the generation of vehicle trips or vehicle miles traveled that would increase air pollutant emissions as there is no construction or other operational phase of the project proposed after the deconstruction work. Therefore, the proposed project would not result in any permanent off-site cumulative traffic noise impacts. As described above, the proposed project does not include construction or any other operational phase of the project proposed following the completion of deconstruction work. Therefore, potential impacts would be limited to the deconstruction phase. As described below, the proposed deconstruction activities and methods would ensure potential impacts to fish, foraging waterbirds, and harbor seals would be less than significant. In addition, Mitigation Measures BIO-2 and BIO-3 from the EIR prepared for the 1548 Maple Street Project include measures to avoid the degradation of aquatic habitat by maintaining water quality and controlling erosion and sedimentation during construction. These measures include, but are not limited to, installation of silt fencing and erosion control wattles between Redwood Creek and construction activities. Therefore, the proposed project’s deconstruction activities and methods combined with the mitigation measures required for the 1548 Maple Street project would ensure that there would be no cumulatively considerable impacts related to biological resources. As a result of Senate Bill (SB) 743, the California Office of Administrative Law cleared the revised CEQA Guidelines for use on December 28, 2018, to include removal of vehicle delay and level of service (LOS) from consideration under CEQA. With the adopted guidelines, transportation impacts are to be evaluated based on a project’s effect on VMT. Simultaneous with adoption of CEQA rule changes, the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) published the Technical Advisory on Evaluating Transportation Impacts in CEQA (Technical Advisory). The Technical Advisory includes a discussion of the use of screening thresholds to identify when a project should be expected to cause a less than significant impact without conducting a detailed study. One of the recommendations is 6.G. - Page 16 of 45 194