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Pleasanton Gateway- Environmental Checklist Traffic Model, estimate its needs for utilities, and to project population growth. The City's growth assumptions were used by ABAG for its growth projections used in the assumptions of the "Bay Area 2000 Clean Air Plan ", the California state mandated regional air quality plan. Therefore, the proposed project would be considered no impact related to consistency with GHG reduction plans, policies or regulations. b) The proposed project is expected to generate short -term impacts related to construction activities (e.g., clearing /grubbing, site grading, etc.). Temporary construction - related exhaust would be an additional source of GHG emissions. Sources of construction - related GHG emissions include exhaust from on -site construction equipment and trucks and worker vehicles coming to and leaving the site. The best management practices that will reduce GHG emissions include, but are not limited to: • Implement dust control measures, such as periodic watering of the site and covering all trucks hauling soil, sand, debris, and other loose material, to control airborne particulate. • Require all construction equipment meet all current exhaust standards for emissions. • Use alternative fueled construction vehicles /equipment, such as biodiesel and /or electric vehicles, for at least 15 percent of the fleet or 15 percent of the construction miles /hours of operation; • Implement Leed /Green Building Measures directed towards using local building materials for at least 10 percent of the construction; • Recycle or have recycled or reused at least 80 percent of construction waste or demolition materials. • These requirements will be made as conditions of the project approval. Implementing the above measures as well as other Greenhouse Gas reduction measures identified with the review of construction plans will further reduce the construction - period GHG emissions. Therefore, this would be a less - than - significant impact. c) Long -term operational emissions are generated by stationary source emissions such as vehicles queued in the project's driveways and mobile sources resulting from normal day -to -day activities such as vehicles traveling to /from the project site. According to the project traffic study the proposed project would result in no more vehicle trips than are presently factored into the City's Baseline Traffic Model from the approved office development due to the passby trip reductions associated with retail uses including supermarkets and due to the fact that this area of the City is underserved by these uses. As discussed in the Page 23 of 52 Pleasanton Gateway Initial Study August 2, 2010