ITEM 23 ATTACHMENT 1 - CEQA Checklist

City of Pleasanton—Merritt Property Project 15183 Consistency Checklist Consistency Checklist 189 collection and treatment and no new or expanded wastewater treatment facilities would be needed, and impacts would be less than significant. Stormwater Drainage Capacity The Housing Element Update FEIR indicated that development projects creating or replacing over 2,500 square feet of impervious surface would require satisfaction of the City’s Stormwater Requirements Checklist, which would ensure the implementation of regulated stormwater infrastructure. The General Plan Chapter 8, Water Element, includes requirements for stormwater facilities. Goal 6 requires projects to minimize stormwater runoff and provide adequate stormwater facilities to protect property from flooding. Policy 8 ensures an adequate storm drainage system to serve existing and future development. Specifically, Program 8.4 requires the installation of on-site storm drainage infrastructure that would improve local storm drainage systems to accept appropriate design-year flows, as determined by the City Engineer. Additional policies require reduction of stormwater runoff and maximizing infiltration of naturally occurring rainwater to improve surface and subsurface water quality, minimize impervious surfaces, and implement stormwater runoff requirements. In addition, development consistent with the Housing Element Update would be required to pay a fair share of the City’s storm drainage improvement costs. Compliance with City requirements and policies would ensure that runoff would not inundate downstream storm drainage facilities such that new or expanded facilities would be required. Therefore, the Housing Element Update FEIR concluded impacts would be less than significant. Electric Power, Natural Gas, and Telecommunications The Housing Element Update FEIR indicated that future development consistent with the Housing Element Update would be located within the urban framework of the City and near existing infrastructure. The CAP 2.0 includes strategies that would reduce the electricity and natural gas consumption for development projects consistent with the Housing Element Update. Because implementation of the Housing Element Update would not result in unplanned growth. As such, the utility providers take into consideration all future growth projections in their planning efforts, and development consistent with the Housing Element Update would not be expected to require or result in new or expanded electricity, natural gas, or telecommunications facilities beyond those already planned. Necessary extensions and/or upgrades would generally occur within existing utility easements.