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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 55 <br />Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/FOF/21480022 Pleasanton Housing Element FOF.docx <br />Facts in Support of Findings: The geographic scope of the cumulative noise analysis is limited by the <br />range of potential noise impacts. Noise impacts tend to be localized; therefore, noise impacts for <br />traffic and stationary noise sources are limited to approximately 500 feet from the source. <br />Construction Noise Impacts: There are no long-term development projects undergoing construction <br />in the vicinity of the potential sites for housing that would constitute an existing cumulative impact. <br />Furthermore, all future development projects within the city limits would be subject to the <br />requirements of the Pleasanton Municipal Code, including Chapter 9.04 Noise Regulations. <br />Therefore, there is no cumulative construction noise impact. Additionally, implementation of the <br />Housing Element Update would not result in a potentially significant cumulatively considerable <br />contribution to construction noise impacts within 500 feet of the potential sites for housing. <br />Traffic Noise Impacts: Several modeled roadway segments currently experience traffic noise levels <br />that exceed the City’s land use compatibility standards for residential land use development that <br />could occur on the potential sites for housing. This would be considered an existing cumulative <br />impact. However, as shown in the traffic noise impact discussion in the Program EIR (Impact NOI-1), <br />for each of the existing impacted roadway segments, implementation of the Housing Element <br />Update would not result in a considerable contribution to this existing cumulative impact. <br />Stationary Source Operational Noise Impacts: All existing and future development in the city would <br />be required to comply with the City’s operational noise performance standards of the Municipal <br />Code, which establish maximum acceptable noise limits and/or permissible hours of operation which <br />ensure maintenance of acceptable interior noise levels for receiving land uses. Therefore, there are <br />no permanent stationary noise sources that would constitute an existing cumulative noise impact. As <br />discussed in the stationary source noise impact discussion (Impact NOI- 1), any development <br />consistent with the Housing Element Update that would have stationary noise sources would be <br />required to prepare a site-specific analysis and incorporate design measures, where necessary, to <br />ensure potential impacts would be reduced to less than significant as measured at the project <br />property plane, in compliance with MM NOI-1. <br />Construction Vibration Impacts: Only areas within approximately 50 feet of a construction site could <br />potentially be affected by groundborne vibration resulting from construction activities. There are no <br />long-term development projects undergoing construction within 50 feet of the potential sites for <br />housing that would constitute an existing cumulative groundborne vibration impact. Therefore, since <br />there is not an existing cumulative groundborne vibration impact in the within 50 feet of the <br />potential sites for housing, implementation of the Housing Element Update would result in a less <br />than significant cumulative impact related to construction groundborne vibration. <br />Operational Groundborne Vibration Impacts: The only major source of groundborne vibration in the <br />vicinity of the potential sites for housing is railroad activity along the rail line that goes through the <br />city. Implementation of the Housing Element Update would not increase railroad activity and <br />therefore would not introduce any new permanent sources of groundborne vibration in the vicinity <br />of the potential sites for housing. Therefore, implementation of the Housing Element Update would <br />not result in a potentially significant cumulatively considerable contribution to vibration conditions <br />(Draft Program EIR, Page 3.11-27–29).