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P11-0824(Downtown Hospitality Guidelines), P12-0798(Pleasanton Municipal Code Amendments) <br /> Initial Study and Negative Declaration <br /> any criteria pollutant for which the project region is <br /> non-attainment under an applicable federal or state <br /> ambient air quality standard (including releasing <br /> emissions, which exceed quantitative thresholds for <br /> ozone precursors)? <br /> d) Expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant 0 Q [� <br /> concentrations? <br /> e) Create objectionable odors affecting a substantial [0 <br /> number of people? <br /> DISCUSSION <br /> a-e. No physical changes such as construction or demolition are proposed as part of this <br /> project. <br /> Special events and hospitality uses, such as music, entertainment, and bars are <br /> already allowed Downtown and no changes to where bars may be requested on a <br /> City wide basis are proposed. The underlying zoning map establishing where these <br /> uses may be located is not proposed to change. Increases in occupancy above <br /> Code, such as the Fire Code, are not proposed. These types of events and <br /> commercial land uses were addressed in the Pleasanton General Plan and its <br /> corresponding EIR. The Pleasanton General Plan EIR required no <br /> mitigation/improvement measures for air quality impacts and deemed the impacts <br /> without mitigation as being less than significant for all air quality impacts with the <br /> exception of potential conflicts with an applicable air quality plan (letter a, above). <br /> This impact was deemed significant unavoidable based on Pleasanton's previous <br /> housing cap and limitations to population. As noted in the Project Description <br /> above (see Section 2), all references to Pleasanton's previous housing cap have <br /> been removed from the Pleasanton General Plan, and a subsequent Housing <br /> Element and its related General Plan amendments and rezonings were adopted <br /> which modified the Pleasanton General Plan land use map designations to <br /> accommodate high density housing. In the EIR for the Housing Element and CAP, <br /> this impact (letter a, above) without mitigation is deemed less than significant. <br /> Other air quality impacts are listed in the Housing Element and CAP EIR; however, <br /> they all pertain to potential construction related impacts, and are all deemed less <br /> than significant after mitigation. These mitigations will be implemented as required <br /> for projects which involve construction. No construction is proposed as part of this <br /> project. <br /> The proposed project is not anticipated to create any new or additional impacts <br /> which have not already been studied in the Pleasanton General Plan and Housing <br /> Element and CAP EIRs. Therefore, these would be of less than significant impact. <br /> November 2,2012 10 <br />