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4400 Black Avenue Redevelopment – Transportation Assessment January 8, 2025 15 Vehicle Miles Traveled Assessment Traffic impacts related to the Project were evaluated for both compliance with applicable regulatory documents and environmental significance as defined in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In accordance with the Technical Advisory on Evaluating Transportation Impacts in CEQA (December 2018), published by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) as per California Senate Bill (SB) No. 743, a quantitative Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) assessment forms the basis of the CEQA analysis for a proposed project. The OPR guidelines state that “VMT” refers to automobile VMT, specifically passenger vehicles and light trucks; heavy truck traffic is typically excluded. Given that the City of Pleasanton has yet to formally adopt VMT guidelines as per SB 743, OPR’s guidelines were utilized. OPR indicates that residential projects exceeding a level of 15% below the VMT rate per resident may indicate a significant transportation impact. As recommended by the City of Pleasanton staff, consistent with what was used in the City’s recently adopted 2023-2031 Housing Element, the Alameda County VMT rates per resident for Year 2040 conditions were used for the significance threshold. In the forecast year of 2040, the Alameda County is expected to have an average VMT per resident value of 17.6 according to the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) transportation model, thus the VMT per capita threshold for significant impact is 14.96. To assess potential impacts, TJKM utilized ACTC’s latest travel demand model. OPR guidance on VMT analysis for residential projects requires a base year condition model run along with a baseline plus project model run to extract VMT data for the Travel Analysis Zones (TAZs) where the project is located on (for this project, the identified TAZ is #1135). Table 4 illustrates the changes used in the ACTC model for the Base Year plus Project model run. Of note, consistent with OPR’s Guidelines, the seven ADUs were excluded from the analysis as they are considered low VMT generators. Table 4: ACTC Model Adjustments TAZ Households Population Office Employees 1135 +59 +169 -55