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City of Pleasanton—Villages at the Quarry Project Consistency Checklist 15183 Consistency Checklist 172 Proposed Project Analysis and Conclusion Construction Construction of the proposed project would require a variety of large, steel- tracked earthmoving vehicles for site preparation and the use of vibratory rollers for internal street construction. According to the FTA, large bulldozers and similar heavy equipment can generate groundborne vibration levels up to 0.089 inches per second (in/sec) peak particle velocity (PPV) at a reference distance of 25 feet. In other words, these vehicles could expose buildings within 25 feet of their construction activities to groundborne vibration levels up to 0.089 in/sec PPV. Small vibratory rollers produce groundborne vibration levels ranging up to 0.101 in/sec PPV at 25 feet from the operating equipment. The nearest building to the project construction footprint is the self storage office building located approximately 40 feet south of the nearest project construction footprint where the heaviest construction equipment would operate. At this distance, groundborne vibration levels from large bulldozers and similar heavy grading vehicles operating near the proposed project’s western property line would be approximately 0.099 in/sec PPV at the façade. This is below the FTA’s damage threshold of 0.3 in/sec PPV for structures of this type, a structure of concrete and masonry construction. Therefore, groundborne vibration impacts from construction activities would be less than significant. Operations Implementation of the proposed project would not include any permanent sources that would expose persons in the project vicinity to groundborne vibration levels that could be perceptible without instruments at any existing sensitive land use in the project vicinity. In addition, there are no existing significant permanent sources of groundborne vibration in the project vicinity to which the proposed project would be exposed. Therefore, project operational groundborne vibration level impacts would be considered less than significant without mitigation. Therefore, there are no environmental effects that are peculiar to the proposed project. The proposed project would not result in a new or more severe adverse impact that was not previously identified in the Housing Element Update FEIR. Approval of the proposed project would not result in any significant effects relating to project-related vibration, and the proposed project would meet the criteria of CEQA Guidelines Section 15332(c).