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November 8, 2024 Page 30 7357-013acp printed on recycled paper A. The DEIR Fails to Analyze or Rectify The Project’s Inconsistencies with the East County Area Plan The Project is not consistent with the East County Area Plan (“ECAP”). Policy 301 of the ECAP provides that the County shall only approve new air pollution point sources such as manufacturing and extracting facilities when they are located away from residential areas and sensitive receptors.151 Sensitive receptors are defined in the East County Area Plan as “facilities which are most likely to be used by the elderly or infirm, children, or persons with particular sensitivity to air pollutants, including hospitals, schools, convalescent homes, and similar uses.”152 The Project’s sewer treatment plant constitutes an air pollution point source and would result in potentially significant air, odor, and noise impact on nearby sensitive receptors. The DEIR provides that “under both Design Option A and Design Option B (Exhibit 2-6a and Exhibit 2-6b), the sewer treatment plant would be located west of El Charro Road in the northern portion of APN 946-4634-2.”153 The proposed Senior East County Lakes Project is also proposed on APN 946-4634- 2. The Montessori School of Pleasonton is located 0.25 miles from the Project site.154 Sensitive receptors including individuals in the residences on the Project site itself, and seniors living at the Senior East County Lakes Project adjacent to the Project, and students at the Montessori School of Pleasonton will be adversely affected by the air, odor, and noise emissions from the sewer treatment plant. ECAP Policy 302 requires that the “County shall include buffer zones within new residential and sensitive receptor site plans to separate those uses away from freeways, arterials, point sources, and hazardous material locations.”155 Program 104 states that the County shall require the use of noise reduction techniques (such as buffers, building design modifications, lot orientation, soundwalls, earth berms, landscaping, building setbacks, and real estate disclosure notices) to mitigate noise impacts generated by transportation-related and stationary sources as specified in the California Office of Noise Control Land Use Compatibility Guidelines.156 The DEIR provides that the DEIR’s noise analysis was conducted “assuming minimal shielding from the existing 6-foot high sound wall 151 Alameda County, East County Area Plan (1994) (Revised by Initiative Nov. 2000), (hereinafter “ECAP”). 152 Id. at p. T-4 153 DEIR, p. 2-29. 154 DEIR, p. 3.8-20. 155 ECAP, p. 71. 156 ECAP, p. 70.