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74 has been identified which results in an impact which is more severe than anticipated by the EIR/SEIR, and (4) feasible mitigation measures contained within the EIR/SEIR would be applied to the project component and render its specific impacts less than significant (SEIR Mitigation Measure CC-1). For these reasons, the greenhouse gas emissions impacts of the proposed Commercial Component would be consistent with the impacts identified in the EIR/SEIR and this project component does not require additional environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. Housing Component: a. According to the Focused GPU program EIR (p. 4.8-17), growth facilitated by the Focused GPU would result in construction activities that would generate GHG emissions, primarily from fuel combustion in equipment during demolition, site preparation, grading, building construction, paving, and architectural coating activities, and in worker, vendor, and haul trips to and from future development projects. Additional GHG emissions would be generated from operational activities, primarily from mobile (vehicular) and energy sources (natural gas and electricity; and energy for water conveyance, wastewater treatment, and solid waste disposal), and also from area sources (hearths, consumer product use, architectural coatings, and landscape maintenance equipment). The Focused GPU program EIR (p. 4.8-17) concluded that GHGs resulting from construction activities would be speculative due to the uncertainties related to the timing and methods of construction activities that would occur for future development. In addition, construction activities would essentially cease to emit GHGs upon completion of construction, unlike operational emissions that would continue until a project is discontinued and the structure no longer used. Therefore, the Focused GPU program EIR did not estimate construction GHG emissions. With respect to operational GHG emissions, the Focused GPU program EIR (pp. 4.8-17 through 4.8-19) explained that BAAQMD uses an “efficiency threshold” for plan-level analysis (6.6 MT [metric tons] per service population [SP] per year of carbon dioxide equivalent [CO2e]), and concluded that GHG emissions from the operation of future development facilitated by the Focused GPU would not be significant because the difference between the existing land uses under cumulative 2040 conditions with the Focused GPU and the proposed land uses under cumulative 2040 conditions (i.e., the net change resulting from future Focus GPU development) would not exceed the BAAQMD significance thresholds (i.e., per BAAQMD standards, because carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per service population under cumulative 2040 conditions are projected to be lower than the BAAQMD standards). In fact, operational GHG emissions for the proposed land uses under cumulative 2040 conditions show a reduction from existing and future baseline conditions without development facilitated by the Focused GPU, or in other words, development facilitated by the Focused GPU would increase efficiency and reduce GHG operational emissions. The Focused GPU program EIR concluded that GHG emission from development facilitated by the Focused GPU would be less than significant. The Housing Component would generate a limited amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during demolition and construction activities compared to the overall development facilitated by the Focused GPU. Because Housing Component construction would be limited to approximately 20 months and construction emissions would be subject to (1) standard City procedures and requirements to minimize construction period air emissions, (2) BAAQMD- recommended procedures to minimize construction period air emissions (e.g., properly tuned equipment subject to onsite monitoring, idling time limits), and (3) State regulations such as the California Air Resources Board’s airborne toxic control measures restricting heavy-duty diesel vehicle idling to five minutes (Focused GPU program EIR, p. 4.6- 10), the Housing Component construction would result in less than significant GHG emissions. According to BAAQMD GHG emissions significance thresholds for projects, a project would have a less-than-significant impact if it includes, at a minimum, the following design elements: (1) - The project will not include natural gas appliances or natural gas plumbing (in both residential and nonresidential development). (2) - The project will not result in any wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary energy usage as determined by the analysis required under CEQA Section 21100(b)(3) and Section 15126.2(b) of the State CEQA Guidelines. (3) - The project will achieve a reduction in project-generated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) below the regional average consistent with the current version of the California Climate Change Scoping Plan (currently 15 percent) or meet a locally adopted Senate Bill 743 VMT target, reflecting the recommendations provided in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research’s Technical Advisory on Evaluating Transportation Impacts in CEQA; for Residential projects, this would be a 15 percent below the existing VMT per capita. (4)- The project will achieve compliance with off-street electric vehicle requirements in the most recently adopted version of CALGreen Tier 2. ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 74 of 148