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Hacienda TOD Standards and Design Guidelines Initial Study a project's GHG impacts quantitatively or qualitatively, and encourages lead agencies to quantify GHG emissions where possible. Pleasanton General Plan 2005 -2025. The City of Pleasanton adopted the Pleasanton General Plan 2005-2025 on July 21, 2009. The General Plan includes a significant and broad -based set of policies and programs that will serve to reduce GHG emissions. They are contained in the Land Use, Circulation, Public Facilities, and Community Programs, Conservation and Open Space, Water, Air Quality and Climate Change, Energy, Community Character, and Subregional Elements of the General Plan. The programs address climate change and GHG emissions reduction through multiple approaches, including: • A. more efficient use of land and other resources; • Measures that encourage alternative means of travel; • Maintenance of the L rban Growth Boundary,, • The preservation of the City's urban forest; • A pattern of urban development that facilitates pedestrian and bike access to parks, other public facilities, and neighborhood commercial uses; • Water conservation; • Preservation of air quality; • Conservation of energy and the use of alternative technology to generate energy; and • Subregional coordination of transit and subregional planning of trails for bikes and pedestrians. The CAP will provide additional information regarding how these policies and others will assist the City of Pleasanton in meeting its targets. The CAP will set a target for GHG production, consistent with AB 32, and will include specific targets for GHG emission reductions for emissions under the control of the City, will quantify the contributions of existing programs of the General Plan, and will discuss additional measures needed to achieve the City's targets, including exploring the relationship between jobs, available housing, vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas production. In the meantime, the General Plan requires development projects approved prior to adoption of the CAP to adhere to the best management practices (BMPs) for energy efficiency, vehicle trip reduction, transit and bicycle /pedestrian increases, recycling, and heat island treatments, as described in Table 3 below. Table 3 Pleasanton General Plan 2005 -2025 GHG BMPs Pleasanton General Plan BMP BMP #1: Single- and multi- family residential and commercial development to comply with the City of Pleasanton's Green Building Ordinance. As far as feasible, residential projects should incorporate: resource - efficient landscaping, energy- efficient hot water distribution systems; high - efficiency toilets and other low -flow plumbing fixtures; high - efficiency heating and cooling systems; pre - plumbing for solar water heating; installation of wiring conduit for future photovoltaic systems; installation of Energy Star appliances; and Green Points in the Community Design and Planning category. BMP #2: Development shall incorporate energy efficient appliances and systems that meet Energy Star standards. Draft, Subject to Revision 17 2/11/2011