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City of Pleasanton Climate Action Plan, CAP Format, Approach, and Content Attachment 2 City of San Ramon Date Adopted: July 19, 2010 Prepared by: City of San Ramon, Michael Brandman Associates Summary: The City of San Ramon (City) prepared a CAP as its primary strategy for ensuring that the buildout of the General Plan 2030 will not conflict with the implementation of AB 32. The CAP is a companion document to the General Plan 2030. It provides a course of action for the City government and the community of San Ramon to reduce GHG emissions 15 percent below 2008 levels by the year 2020 and adapt to the effects of climate change. General Plan policies relevant to specific sections of the CAP are listed throughout the document. CAP strategies are primarily based upon the land use, transportation, and conservation policies that are part of the General Plan 2030, recent specific plans, and major development plans in the City. The CAP relies substantially on the premise that the two largest sources over which the City has jurisdiction, mobile sources and new building construction, will see substantial emission reductions from state regulations on fuel efficiency in motor vehicles and energy efficiency in buildings. Adaptation strategies are also included. The CAP sets out an implementation and monitoring framework and makes the case that its strategy and its content are consistent with a "qualified" CAP pursuant to current BAAQMD recommendations. It quantifies the GHG reducing effects of state policy (primarily fuel efficiency, tailpipe standards, and building efficiency) and targets a minimum 15% reduction (from business as usual) for all new development projects in the City, achieving at minimum a 15% overall reduction in emissions from its 2008 baseline. The CAP relics heavily on state initiatives (including the Renewable Portfolio Standard, Assembly Bill 1493 (Pavley) and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard), which together contribute 92% of projected community -wide emission reductions by 2020 The CAP demonstrates that the General Plan policies and CAP strategies, in combination with state policy, would reduce emissions to the reduction target. The CAP includes strategics in the following categories: land use: higher- density, mixed -use, transit- oriented, pedestrian- oriented, and compact development; transportation: provision of transit facilities, pedestrian connections, bicycle infrastructure, traffic calming, use of low emission vehicles, transportation demand management, end of trip facilities, and parking measures; energy conservation; water; conservation; waste reduction and recycling; and regional cooperation. A2 -7