14 ATTACHMENT 6 - Appendix A - E

City of Pleasanton–Spotorno Ranch Reduced Development Project Environmental Checklist Initial Study/Consistency Checklist 106 FirstCarbon Solutions https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480021/Consistency Checklist/21480021 Spotorno Ranch Consistency Checklist ScreenCheck.docx Environmental Issues CEQA Section 15183(b) Criteria Prior 1998 HVSP FEIR Determination Effect Peculiar to Project or Site? New Significant Effect? New Significant Off-site, Cumulative Impact? New Information, More Severe Adverse Impact? 4.8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would the project: a) Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment? None No No No No b) Conflict with any applicable plan, policy or regulation of an agency adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases? None No No No No a) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would the project: Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment? The 1998 HVSP FEIR did not address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The BAAQMD does not have a numerical threshold for construction-related GHG emissions, but does recommend that these emissions are quantified and included in an impact analysis. Common practice is to quantify construction-related GHG emissions, amortize them over an assumed 30-year project lifetime, and add the amortized value to the operational GHG emissions estimate. FCS evaluated GHG emissions for a 39-lot subdivision on the site in a 2018 DEIR, and compared them to the BAAQMD bright-line significance threshold of 1,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year (MT CO2e/year). The total emissions from operations, including the amortized construction emissions, was 584 MT CO2e/year, which is below the BAAQMD significance threshold (Emissions for a 22-lot subdivision, as is currently proposed, would be even lower). Details can be found in Appendix B. This effect would not constitute new information, an additional or more severe impact that was analyzed in the 1998 HVSP FEIR. b) Greenhouse Gases Emissions Reduction Plan Conflict Would the project: Conflict with any applicable plan, policy or regulation of an agency adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases? The City of Pleasanton adopted a CAP in 2012. While the Pleasanton CAP does not currently meet the requirements for being a Qualified GHG Reduction Plan per BAAQMD requirements, it did meet the requirements in 2018 when the previous analysis was conducted.