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2. This proposal includes a requirement for EV charging spaces for multi-family residential projects. CALGreen has no alternative vehicle parking mandate for residential uses. 3. For office and industrial projects the proposed code amendment specifically mandates a minimum number of spaces for carpool, vanpool and EV charging, whereas CALGreen allows any combination. Thresholds and applicability: Staff is recommending that these requirements be applied to larger projects in order to capture the largest concentrations of commuters without overburdening smaller businesses and property owners. Project size thresholds that are used in other cities for alternative vehicle parking range from 25,000+ to 350,000+ square feet. The thresholds proposed here, 30,000+ square feet for office and 40,000+ square feet for industrial, are intended to target new businesses or business parks that have the capacity to employ 100 or more employees, based on average square footage per employee. However, there may be situations where a building is large but the use requires few employees. In these cases the proposed code amendment allows for exceptions to the thresholds through a request to the Director of Community Development. All non-residential projects that are under the proposed thresholds but involve the addition of 10 or more parking spaces will still be required to conform with the CALGreen requirements discussed above. Staff explored the possibility of applying alternative parking requirement to all new large employers including retail and institutional uses and found it to be problematic because these uses must provide off street parking for both employees and clients or customers. The off-street parking requirements do not differentiate employee (commuter) parking from client or customer parking, so it would not be possible to determine the amount of alternative parking to provide for employees only. Also, the forms of alternative vehicles identified in the proposed ordinance, such as carpool and vanpool vehicles, are generally most appropriate for commuters, and the intent of Action TDM2-10 is to provide alternatives to commutes. Therefore it is not recommended that the amendment be broadened to include retail and institutional uses. Nevertheless, large new retailers and institutional uses seeking approval to locate in Pleasanton can be conditioned to require alternative vehicle parking on a case by case basis. The regulations would be located in a new section of the off-street parking chapter entitled Requirements for Alternative Vehicle Parking. OUTREACH AND PUBLIC NOTICE A notice regarding the proposed code amendment and related Planning Commission public hearing were published in The Valley Times on February 15, 2014. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT The adoption of the 2012 Climate Action Plan was part of the project which was described in the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report certified by the City Council on January 4, 2012. The proposed amendment to the Pleasanton Municipal Case No. P14-0001, City of Pleasanton Planning Commission Page 6 of 7