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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update <br />CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations <br /> <br /> <br />FirstCarbon Solutions 33 <br />Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/FOF/21480022 Pleasanton Housing Element FOF.docx <br />Potential Effect <br />Cumulative Impact: Cumulative impacts related to geology and soils would be less than significant. <br />(Draft Program EIR, Page 3.6-34–35). <br />Findings: Less than significant impact. <br />Facts in Support of Findings: The geographic context for analysis of cumulative impacts related to <br />geology and soils includes the Tri-Valley Planning Area, which includes the City of Pleasanton as well <br />as the surrounding cities of Dublin, Livermore, and San Ramon and the Town of Danville. The <br />geographic context for paleontological resources includes Alameda County. Potentially adverse <br />environmental effects associated with seismic hazards, as well as those associated with expansive <br />soils, unstable geologic units, unstable soils, landslides, and erosion, usually are site-specific and <br />generally do not result in cumulative effects. Cumulative projects would be exposed to similar <br />geologic and seismic hazards during seismic events, but development of individual projects would <br />not increase the potential for impacts to occur. Individual development proposals would be reviewed <br />separately by the appropriate public agency depending on location and undergo environmental <br />review, if appropriate. If future cumulative development would result in impacts related to geologic <br />or seismic impacts, those potential project or site-specific impacts would be addressed in <br />accordance with the requirements of CEQA. New buildings would be constructed utilizing current <br />design and construction methodologies for earthquake resistant design as required by relevant <br />regulations, including the applicable programs and policies included in the applicable general plans <br />and the applicable municipal codes. Compliance with the CBC, NPDES permits, laws and regulations <br />mentioned above, would ensure that cumulative development would have less than significant <br />impacts associated with geology and soils. Future development would be required to comply with <br />provisions of the CBC, excavation, and grading requirements of the Pleasanton Municipal Code <br />including policies and programs included in the General Plan, and mandatory NPDES permit <br />requirements. <br />Future development in Alameda County has the potential to cumulatively impact paleontological <br />resources. However, all cumulative projects would be required to comply with federal and State <br />policies related to protection of paleontological resources which reduces potential cumulative <br />impacts to paleontological resources to less than significant. Development applications would be <br />reviewed for compliance with MM GEO-6, which requires a site-specific paleontological resources <br />survey, and, if a site is underlain by older Quaternary deposits or any other soil with the potential to <br />contain vertebrate fossils, would require paleontological monitoring of all proposed excavations. <br />Future development consistent with the Housing Element Update would also be required to conform <br />to federal and State policies that protect paleontological resources, including Section 5097 of the <br />California Public Resources Code. (Draft Program EIR, Page 3.6-34–35). <br />1.5.7 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions <br />Potential Effect <br />Impact GHG-1: Development facilitated by the Housing Element Update, rezonings, and General Plan <br />and Specific Plan Amendments would not generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or <br />indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment. (Draft Program EIR, Page 3.7-38).