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City of Pleasanton—Merritt Property Project <br />Consistency Checklist 15183 Consistency Checklist <br /> <br /> <br />180 <br />b) Vehicle Miles Traveled <br />Would the project: Would the project conflict or be inconsistent with CEQA Guidelines <br />Section 15064.3, subdivision (b)? <br />Summary of Housing Element Update FEIR <br />The Housing Element Update FEIR indicated that development consistent <br />with the Housing Element Update is estimated to reduce the home-based <br />VMT per resident, from 24.6 without implementation of the Housing Element <br />Update, to 22.3 VMT with implementation of the Housing Element Update in <br />2040. This reduction would not be sufficient to comply with the threshold of <br />significance of 15.0 VMT per resident (i.e., 15 percent below the Alameda <br />County 2040 No Project Average home-based VMT per capita). <br />Although development consistent with the Housing Element Update as a <br />whole would result in a reduction of home-based average VMT per resident, <br />almost all of the sites are above the threshold of significance (see Housing <br />Element Update Draft EIR Tables 3.14-2 and 3.14-3). <br />Development consistent with the Housing Element Update would reduce the <br />VMT per service population for the housing sites by about 17 percent, from <br />36.9 to 30.5; however, resulting VMT per resident of 30.5 is still above the <br />threshold of significance of 22.0 VMT per resident, indicating a significant <br />impact related to VMT (see Housing Element Update Draft EIR Table 3.14-4). <br />The Housing Element Update FEIR concluded that implementation of MM <br />TRANS-2 would be required, which requires individual housing project <br />development proposals that do not screen out from a VMT impact analysis to <br />provide a quantitative VMT analysis using the same methodology employed <br />in the Housing Element Update Draft EIR, with modifications as necessary <br />(e.g., to account for project-specific information and/or to reflect future <br />updates to the Alameda Countywide Travel Demand-—Alameda County <br />Transportation Commission [CTC] Model and/or other methodology <br />acceptable to the City). If the results of the analysis indicate that the VMT <br />associated with an individual housing project would be above the threshold, <br />that development would be required to implement Transportation Demand <br />Management (TDM) measures and physical measures to reduce VMT. (Note <br />that the measures are not additive and combining the measures reduces <br />their overall effectiveness resulting in a limit on the reduction in VMT that <br />these measures can provide).