14 - Laserfiche WebLink

In addition, staff is exploring a JDEDZ Transportation Fee that would be charged to future JDEDZ development applicants at the time they pull permits with the City to develop their property with uses authorized in the JDEDZ. This fee is described under "JDEDZ Transportation Fee," below. Air Quality Impact Analysis For a complete discussion of potential impacts to air quality from implementation of the proposed JDEDZ, please refer to Section 4.B, Air Quality, and specifically to Impact 4.B-2, Traffic -generated Emissions of Criteria Pollutants and Impact 4.B-3, Obstruction of Implementation of the 2010 Clean Air Plan, of the DSEIR and/or the Master Response to Comments in the FSEIR regarding the DSEIR Air Quality Impact Analysis. This section is a summary of the information found in those sources. The air quality analysis is based on the number, type, and duration of vehicle trips that would be generated by the JDEDZ. At the local level, all air quality impacts are Tess -than -significant. The DSEIR concluded that regional (Bay Area) air quality effects would be significant and unavoidable. The size and scope of the proposed JDEDZ would result in a volume of criteria pollutants that exceed the thresholds identified by the region's air district (the Bay Area Air Quality Management District). These thresholds would be triggered by the construction of a project of this size anywhere in the region. Although club -retail -specific travel characteristics were not accounted for, the traffic analysis takes into account that the JDEDZ would result in the development of a major retail component that will offer the ability to shop locally instead of driving to an out-of- town retail location. In this case, because the JDEDZ is located near a large customer/employee base, it will only increase vehicle miles traveled per individual by a marginal amount—about 0.02 to 0.04 miles per person who accesses the JDEDZ. The associated air pollutant emissions per capita are also marginal. The regional air quality impacts are significant not because each customer/employee is traveling far and generating a large amount of pollution, but because the JDEDZ would be a major economic generator (with large numbers of customers and employees). The air district's air quality standards are not structured to measure efficiency (i.e., how many jobs can be provided with minimal air pollutant emissions), but the overall amount of emissions generated by a project. Because the JDEDZ would be occupied by a large number of customers and employees, the trips taken by these customers and employees would together generate a relatively large volume of pollutants and thus conflict with the Clean Air Plan, even though the vehicle trips of many individuals would be reduced (i.e., they would become more efficient). This significant air quality impact is typical of virtually all large, high -economic development activity projects in California, even those that give people the ability to work and shop closer to their homes. Please refer to the Master Response to Comments in the FSEIR regarding the DSEIR Air Quality Impact Analysis for more detail. Page 15 of 22