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City of Pleasanton <br />Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 2.0 <br /> <br />44 <br />for the most GHG emissions within the Pleasanton community in 2017. Passenger and commercial <br />vehicles in Pleasanton accounted for 610,525,132 vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 2017. Residential, <br />non-residential, and direct access electricity use in Pleasanton totaled 555,929,905 kWh in 2017. <br />Residential and non-residential natural gas use in Pleasanton totaled 22,375,992 therms in 2017. <br />The CAP 2.0 is a policy document containing climate action strategies to reduce communitywide <br />GHG emissions. The CAP 2.0 would encourage energy efficiency in existing residential, commercial, <br />and municipal building stock through new policies and educational campaigns as well as new <br />requirements for proposed new buildings through Strategies BE-1, BE-2, and TLU-3. The CAP 2.0 <br />would also incentivize increased renewable energy production within the City through Actions S3 <br />and P4. Additionally, the CAP 2.0 attempts to reduce transportation-related energy consumption by <br />increasing active transportation and public transit use and reducing VMT through Strategy TLU-2. <br />CAP 2.0 Strategies BE-1 and BE-2 and Action P11 seek to decrease natural gas consumption in new <br />and existing buildings by requiring electrification, incentivizing energy-efficient retrofits, and <br />encouraging LEED-certified development, while Strategy BE-3 and Action S3 encourage the <br />production and storage of local renewable energy. CAP 2.0 Strategies TLU-1 and TLU-2 would <br />provide improvements to the active transportation, public transit and EV programming and <br />infrastructure of the City to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions from the transportation <br />sector. Additionally, CAP 2.0 Strategies MC-1 and MC-2 relate to reducing waste production and <br />sustainable consumption. <br />Implementation of CAP 2.0 strategies and actions would require small-scale construction. However, <br />energy use for the construction of such projects would be temporary in nature, and construction <br />equipment used would be typical of similar-sized construction projects in the region. In addition, <br />construction contractors would be required to comply with the provisions of CCR Title 13 Sections <br />2449 and 2485, which would minimize unnecessary fuel consumption. Construction equipment <br />would be subject to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Construction <br />Equipment Fuel Efficiency Standard, which would also minimize inefficient, wasteful, or unnecessary <br />fuel consumption. Furthermore, per applicable regulatory requirements such as 2019 California’s <br />Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen), which is the CCR Title 24, Part 11, future infrastructure <br />projects would comply with construction waste management practices to divert a minimum of 65 <br />percent of construction and demolition debris. These practices would result in efficient use of <br />energy necessary to construct CAP 2.0-related projects. Upon completion of construction for any <br />CAP 2.0-related infrastructure development and redevelopment, non-renewable energy use would <br />be reduced by increasing renewable energy production and storage and reducing VMT within the <br />City. <br />The purpose and intended effect of the CAP 2.0 is to reduce GHG emissions generated within the <br />Pleasanton community to minimize the effects of climate change, including those emissions <br />generated by energy demand and supply. The CAP 2.0 would not result in the use of non-renewable <br />resources in a wasteful or inefficient manner; rather, it would assist in reducing use of non- <br />renewable energy resources and increasing the production of local renewable energy. Therefore, <br />the CAP 2.0 would result in no impact related to the wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary <br />consumption of energy.