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City of Pleasanton—Villages at the Quarry Project Consistency Checklist 15183 Consistency Checklist 216 Summary of Housing Element Update FEIR The Housing Element Update FEIR indicated that development consistent with the Housing Element Update is estimated to reduce the home-based VMT per resident from 24.6 without implementation of the Housing Element Update, to 22.3 VMT with implementation of the Housing Element Update in 2040. This reduction would not be sufficient to comply with the threshold of significance of 15.0 VMT per resident (i.e., 15 percent below the Alameda County 2040 No Project Average home-based VMT per capita). Although development consistent with the Housing Element Update as a whole would result in a reduction of home-based average VMT per resident, almost all of the sites are above the threshold of significance (see Housing Element Update FEIR Tables 3.14-2 and 3.14-3). Development consistent with the Housing Element Update would reduce the VMT per service population for the rezoned housing sites by about 17 percent, from 36.9 to 30.5; however, resulting VMT per resident of 30.5 is still above the threshold of significance of 22.0 VMT per resident, indicating a significant impact related to VMT (see Housing Element Update FEIR Table 3.14-4). The Housing Element Update FEIR concluded that implementation of MM TRANS-2 would be required, which requires individual housing project development proposals that do not screen out from a VMT impact analysis to provide a quantitative VMT analysis using the same methodology employed in the Housing Element Update FEIR, with modifications as necessary (e.g., to account for project-specific information and/or to reflect future updates to the Alameda Countywide Travel Demand [Alameda CTC] Model and/or other methodology acceptable to the City). If the results of the analysis indicate that the VMT associated with an individual housing project would be above the threshold, that development would be required to implement Transportation Demand Management (TDM) measures and physical measures to reduce VMT. (Note that the measures are not additive and combining the measures reduces their overall effectiveness, resulting in a limit on the reduction in VMT that these measures can provide). The Housing Element Update FEIR concluded that because the effectiveness of the VMT reduction measures in reducing an individual development project’s VMT impact to a less than significant level could not be confirmed at the programmatic level, the impact would remain significant and unavoidable.