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City of Pleasanton—Villages at the Quarry Project 15183 Consistency Checklist Consistency Checklist 217 Proposed Project Analysis and Conclusion The proposed project does not screen out from a VMT impact analysis. Therefore, as required by the Housing Element Update FEIR MM TRANS-2, a TIA was prepared for the proposed project by Fehr & Peers in February 2025 (Appendix I). The proposed project would result in a significant impact related to VMT if the proposed project’s home-based VMT per resident is greater than 15 percent below the average baseline countywide VMT per resident. The countywide home-based VMT per resident is 19.4; therefore, the significance threshold of 15 percent below the countywide average is 16.5. The TIA determined that the proposed project would have a home-based VMT per resident of 26.2, which is greater than the significance threshold of 16.5. Therefore, the proposed project’s impacts related to VMT would be potentially significant. The proposed project includes several design features that would reduce VMT to the extent feasible in accordance with Housing Element Update FEIR MM TRANS-2. However, sufficient strategies to reduce the proposed project’s daily home-based VMT per resident from 26.2 to 16.5 are not available. Therefore, impacts would be significant and unavoidable, consistent with the findings of the Housing Element Update FEIR. The strategies being employed as part of the proposed project to reduce VMT are as follows (as described in the Alameda CTC VMT Reduction Calculator Tool-Design Document): 4B Pedestrian Facility Improvement – Providing sidewalks and an enhanced pedestrian network encourages people to walk instead of drive. This mode shift results in a reduction in VMT and GHG emissions. When improving sidewalks, a best practice is to ensure they are contiguous and link externally with existing and planned pedestrian facilities. Barriers to pedestrian access and interconnectivity, such as walls, landscaping buffers, and slopes, should be minimized. The strategy is based on the share of vehicle trips which could easily shift to walking - on average, approximately 21.4 percent of vehicle trips are 1 mile or less. The proposed project would construct sidewalks on both sides of all public streets. 4C Bikeway Network Expansion – This strategy increases the length of a city or neighborhood bikeway network. A bicycle network is an interconnected system of bike lanes, bike paths, and cycle