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City of Pleasanton 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element Update CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 92 FirstCarbon Solutions Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480022/FOF/21480022 Pleasanton Housing Element FOF.docx 500 feet on each side of all freeways and high-volume roadways, and the plan identifies goals, policies, and objectives to minimize potentially adverse impacts. 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 shall be located away from point sources of air pollution and busy traffic corridors following the California Air Resource Board (ARB) recommendations. Program 3.3 requires site-specific studies of 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. 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 as the lead agency, MM AIR-1b is required to conduct a site-specific HRA and to mitigate potential risk to potential new sensitive receptors to less than significant levels. The General Plan establishes a special overlay zone within which future individual development projects facilitated by the Housing Element Update would need to prepare a site-specific analysis to identify and mitigate potentially significant health impacts. Once adopted, the Housing Element Update would be part of the General Plan, and none of the proposed goals, policies, and programs included in the Housing Element Update would 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 plan-level consideration recommended by the BAAQMD. Furthermore, future development projects consistent with the Housing Element Update would need to demonstrate compliance with the strategies included in the CAP 2.0, including measures that have air quality benefits such as sustainable building design, energy conservation, and strategies to reduce VMT. Community Risk and Hazards–Goals, Policies, and Objectives for Reducing Impacts: A proposed plan must also identify goals, policies, and objectives to minimize potential impacts and create overlay zones around sources of TACs, PM2.5, and hazards to be considered to result in less than significant impacts related to exposing sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations. The General Plan (which would include the Housing Element Update, once adopted) contains several policies and programs that aim to reduce the potential growth of vehicle use through encouraging the use of alternative modes of transportation, monitoring and improving existing sources of TACs throughout the City, and reducing overall health impacts related to air quality in general. The General Plan contains Policy 3, Program 3.2, and Program 3.3 which require sensitive land uses be separated from sources of air pollution. Chapter 9 incorporates air quality as an elevated consideration in the review of proposed development projects. Program 5.1 states the City’s intent is to include air quality as a factor in the City’s environmental review process. Program 5.2 requires projects which generate high levels of air pollutants to incorporate air quality mitigation in their design. Finally, Program 5.3 establishes the City’s intent to adopt an ordinance regulating burning indoors and outdoors that may consider allowable hours and setbacks from neighbors. Furthermore, 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 requires the preparation of a site-specific HRA and to mitigate potential risk to