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City of Pleasanton <br />Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 <br /> <br />32 <br />The Bay Area 2017 Clean Air Plan provides a plan to improve Bay Area air quality and protect public <br />health as well as the climate. The legal impetus for the Clean Air Plan is to update the most recent <br />ozone plan, the 2010 Clean Air Plan, to comply with State air quality planning requirements as <br />codified in the California Health and Safety Code. Although steady progress has been made toward <br />reducing ozone levels in the Bay Area, the region continues to be designated as non-attainment for <br />both the one-hour and eight-hour State ozone standards as noted previously. In addition, emissions <br />of ozone precursors in the Bay Area contribute to air quality problems in neighboring air basins. <br />Under these circumstances, State law requires the Clean Air Plan to include all feasible measures to <br />reduce emissions of ozone precursors and reduce transport of ozone precursors to neighboring air <br />basins.28 <br />The Federal Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) mandate that states submit and implement a State <br />Implementation Plan (SIP) for areas not meeting air quality standards. The SIP includes pollution <br />control measures to demonstrate how the standards will be met through those measures. The SIP is <br />established by incorporating measures established during the preparation of Air Quality <br />Management Plans (AQMP) and adopted rules and regulations by each local Air Pollution Control <br />District (APCD) and AQMD, which are submitted for approval to CARB and the U.S. EPA.29 The goal <br />of an AQMP is to reduce pollutant concentrations below the NAAQS through the implementation of <br />air pollutant emissions controls. <br />The CAP 2.0 would not involve land use or zoning changes but would rather promote sustainable <br />infrastructure development and redevelopment. CAP 2.0 strategies and policies focus on <br />decarbonization of buildings and sustainable development, increasing local renewable energy <br />infrastructure, improving active transportation, zero emission vehicle and public transit <br />infrastructure, and increasing urban trees. Implementation of CAP 2.0 actions, such as those aimed <br />at reducing VMT, electrifying vehicles, and reducing natural gas use through building electrification, <br />would have co-benefits to air quality within the Air Basin, would help BAAQMD meet applicable air <br />quality plan goals, and would generally reduce sensitive receptor exposure to pollutant <br />concentrations. Although the purpose and intended effect of the CAP 2.0 is to reduce GHG <br />emissions generated in Pleasanton to help reduce the effects of climate change, many of its actions <br />would also reduce criteria pollutant (i.e., air quality) emissions. CAP 2.0 Strategies BE-1 and BE-2 <br />involve increased energy efficiency and building electrification as part of residential, non-residential, <br />and municipal land uses, and Strategy BE-3 and Action S3 seek to increase the generation of local <br />renewable energy. In addition, CAP 2.0 Strategy TLU-2 seeks to reduce VMT in the City by improving <br />active transportation and public transit facilities, while Strategy TLU-1 would encourage the <br />adoption of ZEVs and low-emissions off-road vehicles and equipment by enhancing EV <br />infrastructure, replacing the municipal fleet of off-road equipment with low- or zero-emissions <br />equipment, and providing incentives for community members to purchase zero-emissions, all <br />electric equipment such as lawnmowers and leaf blowers. These energy- and transportation-related <br />strategies would reduce air quality emissions as well as GHG emissions. Therefore, the CAP 2.0 is <br />consistent with the 2017 Clean Air Plan and would have no impact related to a conflict with or <br />obstruction of the applicable air quality plan. <br /> <br />28BAAQMD. 2017. Final Clean Air Plan: Spare the Air Cool the Climate: A Blueprint for Clean Air and Climate Protection in the Bay Area. <br />Final 2017 Clean Air Plan. Available: <http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/planning-and-research/plans/2017-clean-air- <br />plan/attachment-a_-proposed-final-cap-vol-1-pdf.pdf?la=en>. Accessed October 7, 2021. <br />29 CARB. 2017. 2016 State Strategy for the State Implementation Plan. Available: <br /><https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/planning/sip/2016sip/2016sip.htm>. Accessed October 7, 2021.