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City of Pleasanton—Merritt Property Project <br />15183 Consistency Checklist Consistency Checklist <br /> <br /> <br /> 51 <br />Summary of Housing Element Update FEIR <br />The Housing Element Update FEIR indicted that the Housing Element Update <br />would facilitate future development of sensitive receptors within the <br />identified screening distances of existing odor sources, such as the Dublin San <br />Ramon Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Pleasanton Garbage Service <br />Transfer Station, various coffee roasters, and Vulcan Materials (but not in <br />proximity to this Site 22 [Merritt]). <br />The Housing Element Update FEIR concluded compliance applicable <br />regulations in the General Plan and applicable BAAQMD rules and <br />regulations would minimize odor emissions from adversely affecting a <br />substantial number of people within the City and impacts would be less than <br />significant. <br />Proposed Project Analysis and Conclusion <br />Project construction would generate diesel exhaust and volatile organic <br />compounds (VOCs); however, these emissions would disperse rapidly from <br />the project site and, therefore, would not create significant odors affecting a <br />substantial number of people. As such, construction odor impacts would be <br />less than significant. <br />Land uses typically associated with odors include wastewater treatment <br />facilities, waste disposal facilities, agricultural operations, or other operations <br />listed in Table 5-4, Odor Screening Distances, in Chapter 5 of BAAQMD CEQA <br />Guidelines.3 The proposed project would involve the development of <br />residences whose operations could lead to odors from associated laundry <br />cleaning, vehicle exhaust, outdoor cooking, and waste disposal. However, <br />such odors generated by project operation would be small in quantity and <br />duration and would not pose an objectionable odor impact to future and <br />existing receptors. <br />The project’s operation would also be a potential odor receptor. Using <br />Google Maps, none of the odor-generating facilities were identified within <br />the associated screening distances, as provided in BAAQMD CEQA <br />Guidelines.4 Public records retrieved from the BAAQMD show that no odor <br />complaints were received at the location of the proposed project nor from <br />any facilities within the screening distances from 2019 to 2022. Therefore, <br />there are no environmental effects that are peculiar to the proposed project. <br /> <br />3 Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). 2022. BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines. <br />4 Ibid.