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City of Pleasanton Climate Action Plan, CAP Format, Approach, and Content Attachment 1 Section 8 — Climate Action Plan 8.1 No later than February 17, 2012, the City will adopt a Climate Action Plan. The City shall prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report ( "SEIR ") for the Climate Action Plan. 8.2 On July 20, 2010 the City approved a professional services agreement, incorporating a July 8, 2010 Revised Scope, Budget and Timeline for Pleasanton Climate Action Plan: General Plan Update and Housing Element Environmental Documentation with ESA, a consultant for the preparation of the Climate Action Plan and SEIR. The proposal upon which that agreement was based, which the City has provided to Plaintiffs and Intervenor, is attached hereto as Exhibit D. The City will implement the Scope of Services as proposed; provided, however, that the City may, in its discretion, and after providing advance written notice to Intervenor and Plaintiffs, modify the Scope of Services in a manner that does not prevent the City from fully addressing the allegations raised by the General Plan/CEQA litigation. 8.3 The Climate Action Plan will address the allegations raised by the GENERAL PLAN /CEQA LITIGATION, as spelled out in the Scope of Services. 8.4 The Attorney General's Office has interpreted CEQA and its Guidelines to require that the City analyze its GHG emissions and reduction strategies for the life of a project (through 2025 for the City's General Plan), and to require that the City measure GHG impacts against physical environmental conditions as they exist at the time a Notice of Preparation is published, not against a "business as usual" scenario. The City acknowledges, but is not bound by, these interpretations, and shall consider drafting the SEIR to be consistent with these interpretations. 8.5 Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, nothing in this Settlement Agreement requires the City to undertake any obligation with respect to the Climate Action Plan, or the SEIR for the Climate Action Plan, in excess of the obligations generally imposed under CEQA or any other State law. CEQA Anti - Discrimination Policy I. City shall prepare and adopt as an amendment to its General Plan a Climate Action Plan ( "Climate Plan ") within eighteen months of the date of settlement. 2. The City's Climate Plan shall include the Plan Elements of section 15183.5(6)(1) of the California Environment Quality Act Guidelines. In addition, the City must consider as guidance the "Standard Elements of a GHG Reduction Strategy, "as set forth in section 4.3 of the Bay Area Air Quality Management district CEQA Guidelines. The Climate Plan shall include community -wide greenhouse gas emission targets for 2020 and 2035, and the monitoring and adaption requirements shall apply to both these targcts. 3. The City shall prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report ( "SEIR ") for the Climate Plan. The SEIR shall contain adequate and accurate: a. Community -wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data; b. Analyses of GHG and criteria air pollutant emissions impacts resulting from the General Plan Update, and any necessary supplemental impacts analysis in other areas; c. Analysis of growth - inducing impacts, both within the City and in the surrounding areas; d. Analysis of current commute patterns for the City's major employment providers; Al -3