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meet the City's Regional Housing Needs Allocation ("RHNA"). The SEIR conservatively <br /> analyzes impacts of the development of all the potential sites for rezoning in order to give the <br /> City flexibility to select the appropriate opportunity sites to meet the Project objectives. The 17 <br /> potential sites for rezoning are listed in Table 3-3 at page 3-14 of the Draft SEIR, and additional <br /> information pertaining to Table 3-3 is included on page 2-2 of the Final SEIR. From those 17 <br /> sites, the City Council has identified sites 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 13 as those to be rezoned to <br /> expand its inventory of land available for residential development. In addition to the rezoning of <br /> these sites, the applicable General Plan land use designations of and/or Specific Plan(s) <br /> associated with these sites will also be amended prior to the City Council's consideration and <br /> adoption of the Housing Element update to permit high density residential uses (minimum of 30 <br /> dwelling units per acre) which would provide housing opportunity sites with sufficient density to <br /> develop lower-income housing units. The General Plan land use designations for sites 2, 3 and <br /> 4 will also be amended prior to the City Council's consideration and adoption of the Housing <br /> Element update to allow mixed-use development. <br /> Proposed Climate Action Plan <br /> The second component of the SEIR is the proposed City of Pleasanton Climate <br /> Action Plan (`CAP"). The CAP serves to outline strategies, goals, and actions to reduce <br /> municipal and communitywide GHG emissions. The CAP is structured to ensure that the City <br /> does its part to meet the mandates of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB <br /> 32), which directs the state to reduce state-wide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The <br /> CAP is based on the California Air Resources Board (GARB) recommendation that in order to <br /> achieve these reductions, local governments target 2020 municipal and communitywide GHG <br /> emissions to be 15 percent below 2005 GHG emissions levels. <br /> The Draft CAP is designed to respect the City's General Plan vision and its goal <br /> to become the "greenest" city in California. While several initiatives at the state level will help the <br /> City reduce GHG emissions, they alone will not be sufficient to meet the 2020 target <br /> recommended by GARB. The CAP provides a roadmap for the City to be proactive in reducing <br /> GHGs through a schedule of local actions, designed to enable the City to achieve a 15 percent <br /> reduction in GHGs below 2005 levels by 2020. <br /> The City's 2005 baseline emissions are estimated at 770,844 metric tons (MT) of <br /> carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e). The City's 2020 target of 15 percent below 2005 baseline <br /> equates to total annual emissions of 655,218 MT CO2e, a reduction of 115,625 MT CO2e below <br /> the 2005 baseline. <br /> The Draft CAP includes dozens of strategies and actions measures for reducing <br /> GHG emissions associated with transportation and land use, energy consumption and <br /> generation, water use and wastewater treatment, and solid waste disposal. For each emissions <br /> sector, the Climate Action Plan presents goals, strategies, and specific actions for reducing <br /> emissions, along with quantified cost-benefd impacts. An implementation and monitoring plan is <br /> also provided. <br /> 2. Proiect Obiectives <br /> The proposed Housing Element is an update to the existing adopted General <br /> Plan Housing Element, which was adopted by the City Council April 2003. The proposed <br /> Housing Element is a statement by the City of its current and future housing needs and <br /> proposed actions to facilitate the provision of housing to meet those needs at all income levels, <br />