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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 88 FirstCarbon Solutions Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/FOF/21480022 Pleasanton Housing Element FOF.docx Reduce Population Exposure and Protect Public Health from Toxic Air Contaminants: As identified in Impact AIR-3, new sensitive land uses could be proximate to sources of TACs, but compliance with BAAQMD regulations and mitigation measures would ensure that new sources of TACs do not expose populations to significant health risk. Policy 3 in Chapter 9, Air Quality and Climate Change Element, of the General Plan requires that sensitive land uses shall be separated from sources of air pollution. Program 3.2 states that new sensitive receptors, such as residences (including residential care and assisted living facilities for the elderly), childcare centers, schools, playgrounds, and medical facilities shall be located away from point sources of air pollution and busy traffic corridors following the ARB’s recommendations. Program 3.3 requires site-specific studies to analyze the air quality health risk for development that would place sensitive receptors closer than 500 feet from the edge of a freeway or close to a significant point source of air pollution. As such, individual development projects facilitated by the Housing Element Update that would introduce new sensitive receptors within 500 feet of a freeway or a significant point source of air pollution would be required to conduct a site-specific analysis of the potential health risk as part of the measures required for the project. To support this requirement, the General Plan establishes a special overlay zone covering areas within 500 feet from the edge of a freeway or high- volume roadways within which future individual development projects facilitated by the Housing Element Update would need to prepare a site-specific analysis to inform site planning and design, as well as identify and mitigate potentially significant health impacts. For project sites that would be located within siting distances recommended by the BAAQMD and ARB, currently published in the ARB Air Quality and Land Use Handbook: A Community Health Perspective, or the latest available guidance as determined by the City of Pleasanton as the lead agency, MM AIR-1b would be required. For these project sites, MM AIR-1b requires that a site-specific Health Risk Assessment (HRA) be conducted and mitigation be developed to reduce any identified significant health risk to sensitive receptors to less than significant levels. The Housing Element Update and associated City actions and would not result in the preclusion, removal, or conflict with existing General Plan policies establishing this zone for further analysis, therefore the Housing Element Update would be considered consistent with this AQP goal. Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: GHG emissions are discussed in greater detail in Section 3.7, Greenhouse Gas Emissions. As discussed therein, implementation of the Housing Element Update would substantially contribute to the region’s achievement of the 2030 Statewide GHG reduction goal by targeting a 70 percent reduction in per capita emissions by 2030 and is forecasted to advance toward the 2045 Statewide goal of carbon neutrality. Consequently, the Housing Element Update is consistent with the goals of the 2017 Clean Air Plan to reduce GHG emissions. 2. The Housing Element Update Includes Applicable Control Measures From the Air Quality Plan: The BAAQMD’s 2017 Clean Air Plan contains 55 control measures aimed at reducing air pollution in the Bay Area. Table 3.2-7 on Page 3.2-41–49 of the Draft Program EIR identifies the applicable control measures included in the 2017 Clean Air Plan and the General Plan policies and regulations in the Pleasanton Municipal Code (Municipal Code) related to the